Word: deshong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some very funny people have happened to Plautus on his way from the Loeb Library to the Loeb Drama Center. They are, in chronological order, Erich Segal, David S. Cole, Drew DeShong, Samuel Abbott, Kenneth Tigar and Patricia Fay. Among them, and with the help of several others, and with the help of several others, these wonderful people have made of the Braggart Warrior an exuberant, filthy, and altogether magnificent show...
...DeShong has designed a series of costumes that cleverly mimic a variety of human organs...
Both concentrate on people, though in quite different respects. Martha Rochlin paints the man himself and delves his character and his relation with others. Drew DeShong seems more interested in a strange and mystical atmosphere that diminishes man's character within its vastness and complexity...
...fairly experimental. He frequently interweaves subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...
Visually, this production was most pleasant. Andrew DeShong's two sets seemed useful for a director, providing adequate entrances and varied playing areas. To the eye they were charming. The ruins of a chapel for the second act came, with no detail changed, from the imagination of some great Romantic poet. DeShong's first act sun surpassed the moon that followed it, but both looked implausibly delightful, stuck up against Loeb's giant sweeping cyclorama. Stephen L. Tucker lit the show competently, although there appeared to be a few miscues in the execution of his plot...