Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen Aaron's production of Hamlet two years ago proved (as if it needed proving) that it is possible, even pleasurable, to sit through four hours of solid Shakespeare. Yet the Old Vic Hamlet, which lasts a piffling three hours and twenty minutes, becomes for good stretches distinctly wearisome. Even the slow pace of Michael Benthall's direction is insufficient to account for the depth of its descent into tedium...
...choosing the plays, the group sought a balance between classical and modern drama, Aaron said. It will attempt to avoid playing down to its audiences, a mistake, he added, which previous repertory groups have made...
Stephen A. Aaron '57, John G. Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56 will manage the undertaking. Aaron, who has directed over 30 productions in the past five years, most of them at Harvard, will direct each of this season's offerings. Eyre will serve as treasurer and business manager, and Gitter will devote his time to acting...
...facing each other across a brace of microphones and a polished table in Montgomery, Ala. were deeply disturbed. Farmer Aaron Sellers, of Bullock County, a Negro, told of six attempts to register as an Alabama voter and six failures, including a time when he was warned, "Get the hell out of here." Behind the table, as Sellers' testimony ended, the president of the University of Notre Dame leaned grimly forward. Asked the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh: "Mr. Sellers, you going to continue to attempt to register?" Answered Sellers: "Yes, I'm determined to register." Said Father Hesburgh, smiling...
...director Leo Garen had other plans. He has given us, as Stephen Aaron did in Cambridge, a vigorous, straightforward, realistic, Methodical performance. Genet is much interested in the nature and relationship of illusion and reality; his idea of a dream-Deathwatch probably has something to do with this hobby of his. It is a dangerous hobby, however, likely to lead an author into arid jiggery-pokery. Probably both directors were wise in refusing to sacrifice to it the excitement we derive from watching people act and suffer onstage, rather than dream-phantoms. A proudction directed along Genet's lines might...