Word: caste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the top of the list there are several teams with considerable potential, but from here it looks like the Red Sox will pull it out. Many fans and sportwriters throughout the country have cast grave doubts on this eventuality, but for the past twelve years the CRIMSON has picked Boston and will not be swayed now by the flimsy appeal of public opinion. At a time when all around us values are being shaken and loyalties broken and betrayed, the CRIMSON stands firm and casts a dissenting vote...
John Nathan's clipped, formidable, authoritative king proves that all the vitality has not gone out of the Lancaster family, but with few other exceptions the supporting cast is a random, uncomfortable-looking, and ill-spoken...
Despite a cast containing many of the best singers around Harvard, the Lowell House Opera's production failed either to elevate the play or to do justice to Honegger's score. In the last act there was an inspirational moment suggesting what might have been done with the show: the king asks for some hot chocolate, and the stage is immediately inundated with his entire retinue, led by four flamenco dancers, in a hilarious parody. But this, and a few other isolated touches, were the only light spots in a generally strained evening...
...still obvious that Alan Rinzler's direction left much to be desired. A play such as this requires imagination, subtlety, and a sense for absurdity which his staging lacked. The pacing was poor, and the blocking did nothing more than to solve the problem of a large cast on a small stage. The jest of funny characterizations soon wore thin, and nothing was done to sustain interest as the play wore...
...Power and the Glory, then, while not a great play, is a good play; the same may be said of the performance. Repertory Boston has undertaken a difficult assignment, what with a cast of twenty-eight plus extras-and six different sets. That the group gives a sound performance of a worthwhile play is heartening and encouraging...