Timebends (108 page)

My shop: cherry dining table under construction.

Rebecca in swimming oufit, with gold chain and great hat.

After the Fall,
early rehearsal: Kazan with Jason Robards; in background, Faye Dunaway, Jon Voight, Michael Strong, Barbara Loden, and other members of the young Lincoln Center Repertory Company, soon to be destroyed by the combined arrogance of bankers impatient for a big hit, a newly influential and resentful sixties avant-garde, and a press ignorant of public theatre's necessities.

Midnight script talk with Robert Whitehead and Kazan, Chelsea Hotel, 1963.

Jason Robards as Quentin and Barbara Loden as Maggie: on some nights they discovered a reality between them that was almost too painful to watch.

Franco Zeffirelli's production, with Monica Vitti and Giorgio Albertazzi, Naples, Rome, Genoa, 1964.

Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow, Stockholm, 1964.

Luchino Visconti during his Paris production of
After the Fall,
1965.

Harold Clurman's production of
Incident at Vichy
at Lincoln Center, 1964: Ira Lewis, Joseph Wiseman, Will Lee, David Stewart, David Wayne, Michael Strong, and Stanley Beck. Hal Holbrook as the German officer is off camera. I thought the storm against
Fall
clouded the reception of this remarkable ensemble performance coming so soon afterwards.

Clurman explaining; he thought that nothing would endure without some form of love in its creation. In heaven he would spend eternity explaining to God—with enormous enthusiasm—why He is quite right.

Anthony Quayle as the psychiatrist and Alec Guinness as Prince Von Berg, with the painter Lebeau (Dudley Sutton) and the Boy (Derek Carpenter): Peter Wood's London production, 1966.

Vichy
in Moscow's Sobremenik Theatre, 1987, after twenty years' suppression; its first production, in 1968, was closed down on opening night. Rehearsal photo: Grigori Ostrin as the Old Jew, Valentin Nikuli as the Prince, Igor Kvasha as Dr. Leduc; Marlen Khutsiev directed.

The best sleigh ride ever, Russia, 1965. Inge, laughing, not yet aware that her shutter has frozen.