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Kirkland: Joseph S. Alper, Thomas J. Babe, Jr., Stephen W. Botein, Sanford M. Budick, Nicholas F. Delbanco, John W. Jeffries, Keith A. Jones, David N. Klausner, Seth D. Schulman, Robert H. Stellwagen, Charles P. Timmer...
...Henry cannot smother all, not a capable Glendower (Nick Delbanco) or a roaring mad Scots fighter (Robert Rose as Douglas), and absolutely not the visual effect of a production staged with a Prussian precision of technical detail. Indeed, the only serious technical flaw is in the trying matter of accents in an American production: the lead characters ought to agree on a degree of approximation to the Queen's English and on a pronunciation of Bolingbroke. Otherwise, the Loeb has poured its professional competence freely: there is much swordplay, adequately trained; Donald Soule's stolid set suits the play superbly...
Probably it is mostly the director's (Nirk Delbanco) fault, for he clearly has no control over either cast or play. He has not, fortunately, tried to intellectualize Blood Wedding; but neither has he stylized it, given the characters some central idea of movement and speech on which to hang their parts They even talk in different accents; the Mother (Tina Morse) strong Spanish, the Mother-in-law (Norma Anderson) mildly cockney, the rest ordinary American. This strikes one as odd, admittedly, only when one can hear them, for they conspire in whispers on a set placed so far back...
...Nick Delbanco, in what I believe is his first work as director, moved his actors around the stage very badly, but displayed a coherent understanding of the play. His intelligent grasp of this difficult play makes it a prodution well worth seeing...
More than 70 of the organization's 30 members will go can the tour, traveling by bus and spending nights in the homes of College alumni. "We intend to combine vacationing with our playing," Delbanco remarked, noting that "the pierian's punch is as famous as its orchestra...