Rallying Cries

Called "the theater conscience of our times," Eric Bentley has been both a leading critic and a playwright. "Rallying Cries" presents three of his best known works: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, " successfully staged around the world and on television; "The Recantation of Galileo Galilei;" and the controversial "From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, " a work initially rejected as insufficiently Christian by its commissioning theater but then successfully produced in New York at the Actors Studio and American Jewish Theater.