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| Subject: The Fountainhead, Manchester International Festival, review: half captivating, half stupefying, this stage version is Ayn Rand to a tee Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:35 pm | |
| “It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature – and that the rest will betray it.” Thus spake Ayn Rand, in a foreword to a 1968 edition of her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. For the Russian-born Rand (1905-1982), who wept in wonder at the sight of the Manhattan skyline in 1926, thereafter embracing America like a lover, the fate of humanity lay in the few, not the many. The darling of libertarians, and proponent of the virtue of laissez-faire capitalism as a system that demands and rewards the best in every individual, she regarded as supreme that single-minded “noble soul” who cleaves unyieldingly to their vision, come what...
The Fountainhead, originally a novel by Ayn Rand, has been adapted for the stage by Ivo van Hove
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/fountainhead-manchester-international-festival-review-half-captivating/ |
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