Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice is an interesting one and a good one. Audiences may wonder whether "Adam The Creator" has achieved its purpose--whether, indeed, it has any purpose at all--but they will know at least that the Harvard Dramatic Club has given them something new and vital instead of a warmed-over version of a corner store classic...
What form the creations of Adam (for that is his name) take is the plot of the play. The first act deals in humorous satire--demonstrating how the characteristics Adam imparts to his men and women become magnified when they live--magnified to satirical parody of the traits of the men and women of today...
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...
Ballyhoo for the Harvard Dramatic Club production, "Adam the Greater," reached national proportions this week-end as the University thespians prepared to open tonight for a five-day run in Sanders Theatre...
Sizing up a delicate situation, Publicity Director Martin Shwartz 2G promptly began to send out publicity that stressed the negative angle. On Friday Boston papers discreetly announced that the Eve of "Adam the Creator" would not appear in a fig leaf ensemble. Only the CRIMSON managed to identify Miss Hogan...