Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pond, the lily pads that flap in a sudden gale, the rain that batters at a young girl's face-in frame after frame of temperate loveliness. Moreover, the family somehow transcends its tragedy by the very energy and fullness with which the tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor. The picture bubbles over with gentle laughter at the absurd things people do and are, and the set pieces of comedy-a day at school, a band concert, a visit to the village theater-are just...
...goes sort of script, and all too much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...
...drunk two bottles of whisky. After a prosecution doctor testifies that no one could drink that much without passing out, the defense enlists Actor Poston to prove the contrary. And, particularly at the second-bottle stage, Actor Poston shows an amusing gift for exuberant pantomime, as does Director Abbott for moderate pandemonium. But no play can keep from falling on its face just by having the hero continue to do so, and even at its best, even as a jolly intemperance lecture, Drink tends to pall...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 18--Author-director Joshua Logan and local radio and TV station WGBH, sponsored by the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, of which Harvard is a participating institution, received honors from the New England Theatre Conference here this afternoon...
Logan described his experiences in Moscow as a student of Stanislavski, "The Method," the director's proper role, the analysis of a live performance, and some specific problems he encountered while directing William Inge's Picnic...