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...Yale freshmen are suffering through a mediocre season. Their 4-4-2 record includes a 5-1 victory over Columbia and a loss to Princeton last week. Halfback John Taft and forward Steve Edelson have been the mainstays of the Eli attack all year...
Director Ausubel has added one twist that does work: casting the envoy from Godot as a young girl, Rebecca Edelson, who shifts uneasily from one foot to another and absently caresses the stage's single tree as the she delivers her message; Mr. Godot will not come this evening, but surely tomorrow, surely tomorrow...
...Stan Edelson struck me as a very understated man. When he described his production in terms of the highest goals of most of the New Theatre (Open, Free, Living. or Chocolate), it had the effect of a Psychic Pep Talk. He had me up when I walked into the performing area in the Harvard Epworth Church, and his players kept me there (up, that is) for two and a half hours...
...interested in radical theatre, whether in form or content," Edelson had told me. His direction and the spontaneous creativity of his cast achieved the former, and the substance of Brecht's play guaranteed the latter. The story uses two major vignettes, tied together by a denouement that verges on theatre of the absurd, to depict the tortuous battles of a peasantry ravaged by imperial oppression and revolution...
...major themes very well. Brecht offers a contrast between the best and the worst in all of our natures. The predatory hideousness of the peasants, which upsets our romantic images of the harmony of rustic life, stands counterpoised to Grusha's courage and her magnificent love with Simon. Edelson emphasizes this dichotomy in his direction to a point that stretches credibility. The simplistic harshness of the contrast may be the production's only significant flaw...