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Director James Burrell has done no justice to Moliere's classic comedy, The School for Wives. His rendition of the play successfully butchered a superb script of romantic irony. The performances and staging were both plagued by novice efforts and an inability to cope with the script's complex dialogue...
Since Burrell also produced and both designed and built the set for this turmoil, there is only one person to blame for the disappointing on-stage organization.
Burrell intended the smaller roles in The School for Wives, such as Arnolphe's man and woman servants, to add some comic flavor to the production. However, the actors who played them did little more than demonstrate the simple training they had received from their director. Their efforts at clumsiness...
Born Stanley Kirk Burrell, he picked up his stage moniker from A's players who noticed his resemblance to home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start...
"I hope he was a little more on time a couple of hundred years ago," grumbled Stanley Burrell, president of the Cambridge Veterans Organization, who was on hand to deliver his reflections on the event, as the crowd settled in to wait for Dawes to arrive with his message from...