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accoutrements and decor-in other words, ,another Stark Young?
And how much would all this be hardly more than leading a horse
to water, so long as the innate lure of the theater itself-so long as
what
is
theatrically
memorable in an
Awake and Sing,
a
Little Foxes,
a
Streetcar Named Desire,
a
The Visit-failed
to assert its appeal?
Two further queries come to mind: first, how far does the right sort
of theater foster the right sort of audience, and how far is it the
other way round? And second, have I rung an alarm bell when there
was no fire-is there actually a much greater highbrow response to
the theater in America than I have reason to think?
