Word: agassiz
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...library will also have a coffee shop on the fourth floor which will be run as a part of the present Radcliffe dining facilities. It will not serve the "machine food" that Agassiz now offers for study breaks, Miss Porritt noted...
...Importance of Being Earnest has class, and so does the current Agassiz production. Partly this is because of the uniformly creditable cast; mostly it is because of the play itself. Whatever the reason, Earnest is well worth sticking around Cambridge an extra evening...
...seem particularly courageous to produce a play so hard to ruin, but courage isn't the best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...
...strike some sort of balance between the antics of four extremely funny actresses and the overall consistency of the play. It seems to me he has capitulated to the antics, or simply not had enough time to coordinate them. Either way, Earnest comes over in patches. Furthermore, while Agassiz's small stage makes blocking difficult, there is no excuse for having characters stand stiff against the curtains while they are not part...
...seem curiously inaccurate. Everyone talks as if he had forgotten anyone else was present. I think The Garden would play passably--perhaps well--if a virtuoso actress were found for the part of Sophia. Certainly the play deserves a better production than the one it is presently receiving at Agassiz. Nervous acting, and very little directing at all, have emphasized the difficulties of the script. Miss Picker herself has chosen to take on the role of Sophia, a very difficult assignment. At one time or another, Sophia is called beautiful, inspiring, fascinating, a good dancer, and a brilliant actress...