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...intentions, "fantasies and obsessions." In this sense, he both misses the truth of the play, and, by this very fault, proves its validity. We so much the more belong to Strindberg's configuration by every insufficient and damaging appraisal we make of the appearances before us. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63, Director, "Ghost Sonata...
...Note: Mr. Babe has said precisely and thoroughly just what I was trying to express in my very awkward review. I never meant to Imply that we must see "The Ghost Sonata" through Strindberg's psychological history, or even that we must be aware of this history. That would be bad journalism and bad sense. But I did mean that Evil or not, a stage imposes some detachment on its audience, and that we can only overcome this detachment by seeing the play as "shifting states of mind" with which we can sympathize--"immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments...
Beside these two first-rate actors, the rest of Director Thom Babe's cast looks ineffectual. This is not true of the servants, Jere Whiting and Stanford Janger: Whiting is if anything too overwhelmingly ghoulish and Janger too cheerfully unaffected by his own enslavement to Hummel. But they are more than competent. The dreadful ineffectuality of this production comes in the third act, after the clashes and climaxes of the play...
...easy to discount these weaknesses. Chris and Bitte Rawson's new translation gives a solid idiomatic script that never sounds awkward. Stephen Tucker has designed a brilliant, extremely compact set: the costumes and music are admirable. Babe has directed a Ghost Sonata that is a capable and striking rendition of Strindberg's fantasies and obsessions...
...eighth inning with the score tied 2-2, and smashed a three-run homer. Said Mickey Mantle with a wry smile: "Gee, it must be nice to hit a homer in the series.'' Added the man who has hit more (14 ) over the years than anybody except Babe Ruth, "I wish some day I could...