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That such an idea can be put across credibly on the stage of Agassiz is remarkable; that such an idea can be put across so well is nothing short of miraculous. With imaginative settings, excellent and often brilliant dialogue, and a beautiful theatrical symmetry, much of the play's success is due to Joel Schwartz, who both wrote and directed it. But the acting is not only equal to the play itself, it often surpasses it. With the exception of Mark Liberman as Charles, the pedagogue, the cast plays its multiple parts (the lovers are the same royal family) with...
...cracked down. A special Mountie D-squad (for Doukhobor) swarmed through the Kootenays, setting up roadblocks, searching Freedomite homes and cars for bomb components, finally arresting some 120 hard-core Freedomite terrorists. The prisoners were given terms of up to ten years in British Columbia's prison at Agassiz-a fireproof clink that prevented the Freedomites from taking their usual route to freedom (burning down the jail...
...prisoners' families retaliated in typical Freedomite fashion. They stripped, set fire to their houses in Krestova and nearby Goose Creek, then marched off to Agassiz and laid naked siege to the prison...
Harvard now owns a 60-foot radio telescope operating at Agassiz Station in Harvard. The telescope, built in 1956, has done important work on radio emissions from hydrogen in space that led to a new map of the galaxy drawn from radio data. By now, however, the telescope is one of the smallest in the country still doing original research...
Kopit's greater success, the one that carried him into the legitimate theatre, was produced not by Dunster but by the Adams House Drama Society. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad premiered at Agassiz Theatre in January, 1960. Within a month it was snatched up by New York agents and moved to an off-Broadway house, whence it was again snatched up, this time by Hollywood...