Word: chapman
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Robert H. Chapman, instructor in English, will discuss his play, "Billy Budd," at 1:30 p.m. today at the Law School Coffee Hour in Harkness Common...
When San Antonio reporters asked blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, 31, if she still planned to marry Dr. Eugene R. Chapman, 50, the surgeon she met in San Antonio two years ago, the Metropolitan Opera star had a ready answer. "Everybody knows we are going to get married," she burbled. It was simply a matter of setting the date. The flustered doctor, recently divorced and not so fast with his reply, said: "No plans at this time." After a hasty conference, the prospective bridegroom reconciled the two views with a formal statement: "Miss Kirsten and I will be married...
Billy Budd (adapted from Herman Melville's story by Louis O. Coxe & Robert Chapman; produced by Chandler Cowles & Anthony B. Farrell) is a brave shot at a difficult target. On its own terms the sea story that constitutes Herman Melville's valedictory to life is certainly great enough. But to recast it for the theater means tackling a subject far deeper than the sea, grappling with a far-from-well-told story. It means handling utterance that now soars on wings, now walks on stilts. It means working with characters that are essentially black & white, must not become...
Playwrights Coxe & Chapman have understood Melville's story. They have not sentimentalized it. They have kept Billy from seeming a mere goody-goody. They have banished all bravura from the trial scene. They have contrived a very quiet scene where the Captain tells Billy of his fate. Moreover, they are well served by Norris Houghton's direction, Paul Morrison's fine stage sets, the acting of Dennis King, Torin Thatcher, Charles Nolte as the Captain, Claggart, Billy...
Herman Melville is both the strength and weakness of the play "Billy Budd." In transposing his novel to the stage, authors Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman (who now teaches English 160) have preserved the moral depth and intensity that are outstanding in Melville. "Billy Budd" is a play of more than average significance and complexity. But even one who has assiduously avoided reading the novel in order better to judge the play on its own merit, cannot fail to recognize the hand of the novelist in what should be the playwright's handiwork...