Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controlled and droll performance as Mr. Sloane, not perhaps as sinister as he should be, but always the master of his accent and his deadpan. The four actors were acting well together on Friday night and were probably a perfect ensemble by the time the play closed on Sunday. Daniel Chumley's drab set served its purpose and the props man who located a record of "Indian Love Song" should be congratulated...
...birthplace. There she made her decision to defect. "My husband has died in Moscow, and his death exactly made me absolutely intolerant to the things to which I was rather tolerant before," said Svetlana. "I can mention also the courts, the trial of [Underground Writers] Sinyavsky and Daniel, which produced a horrible impression on all the intellectuals in Russia and on me also, and I can say that I lost the hopes which I had before that we are going to become liberal somehow...
...Daniel Chumley designed the set, so it is he who must be flayed first. He has built a false stage over the real one, and tilted his creation at a 25 degree angle. Actors arrive and depart on long ramps which curve off into the dark. The whole affair suggests a complicated highway interchange...
...best of the mechanicals is John Pym as Peter Quince, the carpenter. Pym's delivery is faultless and his gestures suggest that he is as desperate as a man of his low-Court standing should be. Daniel Chumley plays the immortal Bottom with great exuberance, and a fine, rasping voice. But he played Bottom as a stand-up comedian, conscious of his power to entertain. Chumley is so brash that he succeeds in sounding not the least bit awed in the "Bottom's dream" speech...
This Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 105 class, and there is a temptation to assign it a grade. Let it go as a disappointment, but not a failure...