Word: aarons
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Although "Troilus and Cressida" presents formidable acting problems, it provokes an interesting use of the stage. Stephen Aaron, director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential...
Archibald MacLeish, chairman of the Faculty Committee on the Drama, commended director Stephen A. Aaron '57. "What Aaron did was completely remarkable," MacLeish stated; "he deserves very great praise." Shakespearean scholar Alfred Harbage, Cabot Professor of English, deemed the production "very well done, especially considering it was a terribly difficult play...
...fire in the Loeb Drama Center Monday will not delay the opening of the Theatre, Stephen A. Aaron '57, Executive Secretary of the Committee on Dramatics, said yesterday...
...Aaron said damage to the stage was minor. The red stage curtain, badly burned by the fire, was not to be used for the open stage production of Troilus and Cressida...
...Khrushchev's wife and youngest daughter watched from a box of the Stanislavsky Theater, Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn glided through the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. The troupe also leapt and lassoed its way through the Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo and George Balanchine's abstract Theme and Variations, set to Tchaikovsky music. The Russians admired Tallchief and Bruhn, were politely confused by the unclassic vigor of the American originals, but clapped the entire company back for six curtain calls after their debut...