MAHLER at the Arts
- It happened that a few weeks ago I read the script of MAHLER by
Maurice Rowdon and reported that while a play for two characters was
generally very difficult to put over, this play, though it had a few
44 contrivances," 97 ran very smoothly, had great zest, a delight in its two
characters, and a feeling of rapture for the music that enslaved them.. -
a moving play .
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Feb 23
4 Anne Mahler, the daughter of the composer, will not be going to see
MAHLER, the new play about her father by Maurice Rowdon . 9
] I know the play,' she said. € Mr. Rowdon sent it to me some time ago
and I sent it back as being beneath discussion. I am scandalised that
anyone should put it on.'i
THE TIMES Jan 31
6 MAHLER covers an infinity of time, during and after the characters'
lives . . .Alma sits and faces death with the screaming of a jungle cat. .
the assurance of the young woman who knows that she is secure socially
and attractive physically Edith Macarthur handles beautifully.
THE STAGE Feb 22
4 Kit Surrey has designed a structure of wood and gauze that takes John
B. Read's evocative lighting well.
As Mahler Vladek Sheybal nicely
understates the 42 year old honeymooner with a book in his hand.'
THE TIMES Feb 15
6 Edith Macarthur is very much all-woman, beautiful to look at, graceful
in stature and good to hear. Vladek Sheybal is cunningly self-effacing as
Mahler, the man who is not of this world but who has to live in it -
I see that Mahler's daughter Anna, having read the script of this play,
described it as inept. It isn't.'
THE EVENING NEWS Feb 15