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...Joel DeMott directed and designed the show. She did an excellent job with the blocking and set, thereby proving once again that the Ex need not be used solely for Beckett. But Miss DeMott (following Strindberg) failed to decide whether the play was to be treated as camp or lyric poetry, and in the confusion she staged something that was often silly...
When Swanwhite (Patricia Hawkins) and the Prince (Tom King) appear, it is easy to see why Miss DeMott was confused. Their scenes together were dulcet and graced with a compelling sincerity. Both were good on stage, and at times Miss Hawkins managed an intensity of voice and expression which lifted her performance out of the production. Had the rest of the play been done slapstick, they could not have had their poety. But what tedium while we wait for them to enter...
Yeah, it's one ofthose plays. Producer-director Joel DeMott said it was about the failure of Christianity, but that she had deliberately played that down in her production because her actors didn't want to do a play about Christianity. Apparently the skinny guy in the blue silk shirt who blows trumpet is an okay guy, and everyone else represents the selfish elements of civilization. But I'm probably misquoting her, so I'll stop the plot analysis here...
...case, Miss DeMott obviously understands and admires the play she's directed. Regardless of my opinion of her production, what's there is what she wanted; she knew exactly what she was doing...
Nobody got all the answers to last Thursday's rock and roll quiz, but three entrants did hit 39 of the 40 questions correctly. They were John Leshy '66 of Kirkland House; Jim Sersich '68 of Lowell; and Suzanne Snell '66 and Joel DeMott '67 of Eliot Hall. Almost everyone was stumped by question number 32, which asked for the source of the lines, "Like a summer rose needs the sun and rain, I need your sweet love to heal the pain." This lovely couplet comes from Tommy Hunt's unjustifiably obscure "I Just Don't Know What...