Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vesper services at Mem Church...
...first show was finally given in Christ Church auditorium, and the next was presented in a common room of the Harvard Union, in the round, an approach that has not been used lately in Cambridge. The experiment has proved successful and we hope that more plays in this form will be seen in the future...
Mounting a show in Christ Church brought its own difficulties. The auditorium closed at 5 p.m. while the group prepared for the opening. Most of the theatre people seemed to be used to working at night, through th early hours of the morning, and the Church's hours caused some distress. Many of those working on the show were involved during the day with school work and jobs, so the few hours left in the evening were hurried and hectic. One can imagine the embarrassment caused by the minister appearing quietly in the auditorium while the irritated stage crew wrestled...
...control board in Christ Church came to need four pairs of hands and one pair of feet to keep it happy, and volunteers appeared at the last moment every night. They also filled in at the backstage bridge game when the regular players were on stage. This game lasted through the entire run of Antigone, in a Sunday School room that was commandeered for the offstage area. The noble and stately queen of Thebes climbed through its window every performance with un-middle-aged skill. One spectator had a few uncomfortable moments when he saw the spotlights hung over...
...authors, who now live in New Jersey but still profess to be wary of retribution by Spanish agents, have taken the undoubted truths that Franco's regime is corrupt and oppressive, that the fishers and farmers are appallingly poor, and that the Spanish church is the most inflexible in Catholicism, and blurred them in something called a "documentary novel." But, encysted in a perfunctorily told story in which each character is paraded merely as a type-the grasping peasant, the sadistic Falangist, the hardy old freedom fighter-facts quickly take on the smell of falsity. And ironically, although...