Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Search of an Author is to be found at the Wilbur; but it is greatly exciting that for several months, and, with any luck, for many years, a series of good and great plays, adventurously chosen and well performed, will be constantly on view in Boston. Congratulations to Stephen Aaron '57, John Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56, the managing directors of the company. Congratulations to audiences, present and future, for being in on what promises to be a damn good thing...
Organist Lois Pardue and a string ensemble conducted by Kalman Novak will play works of Bach, Aaron Copeland, Edmund Haines, Handel, Henry Purcell and Walter Piston...
Directors of the new theatre, Dean Gitter '56, Stephen Aaron '57, and John Eyre '58, announced that the opening attraction will be Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author...
...Doctor and the Devils was written as a movie script; the story is told in one hundred and forty-one scenes in the printed text, some lasting only a moment. Thomas sent his hypothetical cameraman up and down the streets of a whole city; Joseph Everingham, the adapter, Stephen Aaron, the director, and Webster Lithgow, the designer, have had to cram all this onto the double stage at Kresge. They have wisely stuck close to Thomas' original, and, having attempted the impossible, brought it off better than might have been expected...
...Aaron's slum scenes, while effective, have an air of deja vu about them, and, at least at the dress rehearsal Lattended, the murders were sadly disappointing. More work may have been done on the show since then, but The Doctor and the Devils would be out of place on the stage even in the best of circumstances. It is a movie script. Its dozens of locales need dozens of settings; its fades and cuts and dissolves must be quicker and cleaner than the be-tiptoed blackouts that are necessary in the theatre. Much of the work's quality...