FREEDOM AS THEME

Press, Volume C, Issue 29474, 28 March 1961, Page 11

FREEDOM AS THEME

i Vienna Festival Plays The 1961 Vienna Festival plays have been arranged under the theme, "The Idea |!of Freedom in Drama.” Six i j foreign companies have so far agreed to take part. The Old Vic was to have come but. owing to an engagement in Australia, its place is now being taken by the Theatre Royal, Windsor. !lt intends to perform George ! Bernard Shaw’s “St, Joan.” The Theatre de I’Ateller. Paris, will perform Jean : Anouilh’s "Antigone,” while the Duesseldorfer Schauspielhaus will give a performance m German of the French playwright Paul Claudel’s •The Silk Shoe." The Berlin Schiller Theatre will perform Aeschylus’ classical tragedy, “The Persians," also in German. Two operas have been included in the “Freedom” theme. They are Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck.” Both will be performed by the Vienna State Opera. Outside the framework of the “Freedom Cycle,” there will be performances of Christopher Fry’s “Curtmantle” and Albert Camus’ "Caligula," both in German, as well as works by Schiller, Shakespeare ("Twelfth Night"), Franz Frillparzer, i Carl Zuckmayer, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Hugo von j Hoffmansthal.