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Masturbatory daydreams do not make good theater. There is sex enough in The Alchemist to justify it as the focus of a production; but to squeeze sex out of every line, to impose sex when there is none to squeeze, blurs the sharp outlines of Jonson's play and dulls his sharp wit. The lusty zest which director Mark Mirsky tried to inject into the production bloated it into a rarely amusing, never shocking bore...
...point of The Alchemist must be made largely through its pacing. The moral plague which settles over Lovewit's London house must come with lightning speed as Subtle and Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger...
David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, will speak before the combined classes at Emerson Hall on "Some Experiments in Higher Education." Many of the class members will also see the HDC's production of "The Alchemist" at the Loeb Drama Center tonight...
...first issue indicates that The Barber of Seville by Paiasiello, Peer Gynt by Ibson, The Alchemist by Johnson, and Ajax by Sophocles "will grace the main stage next semester...
Robards Jr. against three women two old maid sisters and a wife-who need him to need them; The Tenth Man, Alchemist Paddy Chayefsky's murky but potent mixture of out-of-date mysticism and up-to-date neurosis; The Miracle Worker, a tour de force of acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and The Best Man, Gore Vidal's cutting caricature of coldblooded politics...