Word: anouilh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This summer marked the thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...
Cambridge's contribution to the summer's theatrical activity derived from the two productions mounted by students in the area. The first was Anouilh's Antigone, given in the Christ Church auditorium. Anouilh's reworking of the ancient myth makes Creon a very sympathetic character. It does not seem so carefully thought out as it should be, but it has undeniable moments of great power...
...play is the Summer Theatre's second production, following the July adaptation of Anouilh's Antigone...
Calling itself the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, the organization is headed by Robert Hesse '59, producer. It will give "an original adaptation" of the English version of Anouilh's statement of Sophocles's tragedy...
...Anouilh's work will be presented July 24, 25, and 26 in the Christ Church auditorium. Those interested in aiding with technical or clerical, aspects of the production are asked to call John Friedman '60, business manager, at TRowbridge...