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...committee also voted in favor of postponing consideration of a public service group, the Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO), that would work in conjunction with students from other Boston-area colleges...
...BISCO would not have been connected to the Public Service Network (PSN) or the Phillip Brooks House Association (PBHA...
...with effects--the weird lighting turns out very well--but less control of his actors. Michael Medearis plays the nearly mad son of a mad sea captain with melodrama in every syllable. This sometimes comes off. John Baker, as his father, teeters between vivid strength and hamminess, but Barbara Bisco, as the captain's daughter, enters her role with fine if sometimes sudden emotion...
Weatherwise, on the other hand, was a credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable...
...Miss Bisco, as an extremely winning Alice, speaks her lines more clearly than most of the cast, who occasionally bellow or slur Carroll's wit right out of the range of their three-to-ten-year-old audience. But thanks to Thomas Whedon's direction, even when dialogue and lyrics fail to overcome the steady mutter of the junior critics, the pantomime and by-play are sufficient to keep them entertained...