Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part in its opening production of the season. Like half of the troupe this year, Madden is a newcomer to the Festival; and his debut performance here is utterly fascinating every moment he is on stage--and this despite my feeling that he has been essentially misguided by director Michael Kahn in much of the play...
...when the King returns to England that the director and Madden have gone astray. I said above that the role admits of great latitude in performance. One thing, though, is sure: Richard suffers, but he always revels in his suffering. He is a masochist. He feels, he intentionally embroiders on his feelings, and he can at the same time even objectively observe himself from outside. He is always conscious of his audience--even when the audience is just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial...
...told to do. Shakespeare needed Richard as preparation for Hamlet; reversing the process, Madden brought to Richard the experience of having rather impressively played Hamlet at the Phoenix Theatre in New York in 1961. The blame for his current shortcomings must be laid almost entirely to the director, who has, I may say, done most of the rest of his work here quite laudably...
Cioffi's performance compares favorably with the fine one given by Philip Bosco in the Festival's 1962 production of the play. It is not Cioffi's fault that the balance between Richard and Bolingbroke is upset, and that aspects of the latter's character are missing; for director Kahn has trimmed the text to three acts of 45 minutes each, and in the process omitted the entire Aumerle conspiracy with Boling-broke's attendant clemency...
...other ways. It is more rigidly run than the academic year is: it has strict rules against men visiting girls' rooms and vice versa, although this year for the first time visitors will be permitted in certain common rooms. Women in dorms have early curfews. There is a social director to plan and sponsor group activities, something which wouldn't make sense for the fragmented Harvard community during the year. Many of these changes are necessary because of the nature of a summer school. In any case, they make Harvard a different place during the summer...