Word: approachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of this production lacks this sense, and contents itself with a faithful but unresonant delivery of the Bard's poetry. In an odd way, this approach actually improves the play's lengthy final scene. With too many loose ends to wrap up neatly, Shakespeare threw up his hands in disgust here and let the Duke run wild, marrying couples and ending subplots in one-line salvos--and he never wrote comedy again. But he left directors with an awesome problem of how to present the scene believably. They have offered it as a parody of incompetent plotting...
...With the approach of tournaments and stiff Ivy League competition, the men's swim team, undoubtedly the leader this season, looms large as Harvard's biggest hope for national success. The powerful squash teams also have a shot at fine finishes, and the women fencers appear headed for at least a winning season...
...idea of 'alternatives' was mind-boggling to them," Dominguez said. "One man came up to me and asked, 'Professor Dominguez, which is the correct approach...
...example of the kind of innovation Brustein could bring to undergraduate drama, take his basic "no more masterpieces" approach to the "classical" canon, an approach that discourages dull, "definitive" productions, promoting constant re-interpretation and directorial probing into the heart of each play. He has written at great length, most recently in a splendid defense of Henrik Ibsen in this month's issue of Decade magazine, about applying this theory to contemporary social problems. A director, he has written, must try to infuse the "classics" with comtemporary meaning, to apply the general human problems as the playwright articulates them...
...operate through a bureaucracy here," said Kieley. "Rather, students feel free to approach the chef and make suggestions...