I did, and Merkerson and Anderson reminted the play. It still worked.
I'm wondering if Olivier (producer) did the "adaptation," such as it is, for this oddity. The material he excised, including most of the text for the famous end, doesn't give the play a cinematic feel, only an incomplete one. And in several places it allows Olivier to overreact like an old ham as Woodward works in an entirely differently emotional lexicon. I'm reminded of how much Tennessee Williams loathed what Olivier did to his "Streetcar" text in the original London production with Leigh, too much of which was cut. The treatment of a script that would never stand today. It's still startling, the hubris of Olivier thinking he had that option.
Maybe the director (Silvio Narizzano, who filmed "Georgy Girl") cut this text. It's a dreadful example of overriding the very qualities that made Inge... well, Inge. |
