Abstract

Drama
M. C. D. | March 14, 1918 issue

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Play director Stuart Walker has made an interesting experiment in presenting a dramatic version of the "The Book of Job" at the Booth Theatre. He has not attempted to make a play of Job's trials. This is drama at its simplest, essentially a mere combination of narrative and dialogue, with scenery, costume, and lighting to lend it warmth and life. Accompanying music on the organ, arranged by Elliott Schenck, emphasizes the religious character of the performance, although riot always its artistic beauty. Influenced by the words and the atmosphere, the actors, too, adopted perhaps involuntarily a sort of monotonous intoning in reading their lines, tedious but reminiscent of the chanting in the Catholic Church.

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BOOK of Job, The (Theatrical production); THEATER; WALKER, Stuart; SCHENCK, Elliott; ORGANISTS; INSTRUMENTALISTS; CATHOLIC Church
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