Word: contemporania
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What with its recent presentation of Inside Contemporania plus the two productions on yesterday's program, it might be argued that the New Theatre Workshop is favoring too many undisguised treatments of man's dilemma in the modern world. But for the time being, at least, the choice of In This Hung-up Age once again vindicates the group's taste and talent...
Switches on two standard themes provide the material for the New Theatre Workshop's first 1955 offering of student-written plays: His Father's Image, by William Amory, and Inside Contemporania, by Hayden Richards...
...where His Father's Image is weakest, Richard's Inside Contemporania is most impressive. The author has written an engaging satire on the idealistic stranger visiting the modern scene, which requires near-perfect execution for success. Director Harold Scott has handled it admirably. His groupings, timing, and gestures are carefully thought out to exploit the opposing strains of modern jargon and idealistic declamation in Richards script, so that its humor is correctly balanced with its more sobering import. It is to Scott's credit that not a line is lost, especially in the expertly-managed final scene...
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