Word: ayrton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazed you did not do any research prior to your article on Mr. Norman Ayrton [Crimson, March 20]. Mr. Ayrton is in fact the third visiting director of high caliber to visit the Loeb Drama Center since 1971. In 1971 Stuart Vaughan taught acting and produced "Tis Pity She's a Whore" with a student company on the Loeb Mainstage. Likewise in the Spring of 1972 Hal Scott also taught acting and his production of "Indians" is possibly the best piece of theatre seen at the Loeb in the past five years...
...response to article on Norman Ayrton, I would like to make a few comments based upon my own experience here with drama...
...Ayrton is more than entitled to his own opinion of the actors he has worked with, but I invite him to observe a rehearsal of The Front Page, and, afterwards, I'd like to discuss the application of the word "professional" with him. Jeff Melvoin...
...lines. Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote the play in 1775 but with a little rewriting and an update on the cursing ('Zounds' and Odds whips and wheels' just wouldn't make it any more) the play could easily run on Broadway as a slow-paced Neil Simon comedy. Director Norman Ayrton has already begun the rewrite in a minor way. Originally, The Rivals was set in Bath, England; here Ayrton uses Boston in the early 1760s to create a mood of recognition...
This local color is supposed to be in anticipation of the bicentennial next year but its real purpose is to forego the English accents. By switching the situation to Boston perhaps Ayrton hoped to hold the audience's attention in an otherwise long, drawn out farce...