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...quite. Director Bart McCarthy's characters have little charm, their lines have little music, and their interaction has no comic side. Maybe I exaggerate. Chekov will survive quite a bit, possibly including this production...
...lack of comedy hurts most. Chekov's plays burst with heartbreaking comedy, the comedy of a dying class whose suffering and humanity are not less because it deserves to die. Even the stage directions are comic. "There is also a map of Africa on the wall, obviously of no use to anybody." That map should fairly exude incongruity, and when Dr. Astrov, searching desperately for something to say, observes that it's probably roasting in Africa right now, we ought to laugh at the statement's inappropriateness at the same time that we recognize his desperation. In the Boston...
...what he considered the Loeb's non-theatrical organization, he founded "Harpo", the Harvard Producing Organization. Senelick choose for the inaugural performance "Married Alive"--a collection of three one-act farces on married life including George Bernard Shaw's Overruled, George Feydeau's Madame's Late Lamented Mother and Chekov's Wedding...
...best-drawing play has been Chekov's Uncle Vauya, which is averaging a paid attendance of 415. Brecht's Trumpets and Drums, which opened last week and is being shown only nine times, is expected to do as well...
Humanities S-9: It looks like a beaut: the course will study the five plays being put on by the Harvard Summer Players (Shaw's Millionaires, Pinters The Dumb Walter; Beckett's Happy Days; Chekov's Uncle Vanya; and Brecht's Trumpets and Drums). Students will attend some rehearsals, discuss the plays, and perhaps take a bit part in the Brecht for credit in the course. Lectures will be by the Load's three Faculty directors, Robert Chapman, Daniel Seltzer, and George Hamlin. A warning: you'll be competing for grades with some of the members of the Summer Players...