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In the program for the first performance of Him in 1927, E.E. Cummings wrote a whimsical but well-taken warning about his work:
At that time Him was the most futuristic of plays, a theatrical circus aping a carnival world. Cummings' only full-length play is still as exotic and volatile as the brightest contemporary drama. The poet's perceptiveness and wit, conveyed by over 50 characters in 21 scenes, saturates every inch...
Him couples the anguish and irony of the theatre of the absurd with the rowdy frivolousness of vaudeville comedy. Through the story of a young praywright (Him) and a fictional woman (Me)--taking place within an ether-dream experienced by the woman--Cummings writes about himself and everything in his...
In the second act Him shows Me a play on which he has been working, a string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the...
Chuck Mercein sat on the Yale bench last Saturday, his thigh so swollen from a massive hemorrhage that he could only hobble. As he watched, Harvard held his team and his replacement at fullback, Pete Cummings, without a first down for the entire fourth quarter. Yale lost, 18-14.