Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play they present is not an easy one to produce, but quite obviously, a lot of people gave it a lot of work. The sets are lavish; the costumes (by Elizabeth Tudor) are beautiful and exquisitely detailed. Drawn entirely from the Harvard "community" almost every actor fills his part--most are better than competent. Measure for Measure is worth seeing, but once the production inspires you to start thinking about it, you can hardly stop. Half the pleasure of experiencing Shakespeare--off the shelf and on the stage--is in asking questions. Since this production lacks strong, cohesive direction...
...Elizabeth Vuchnich...
...Gordon is to be linked with her elders and betters, the closest is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen. In some ways, Final Payments is a lower-class Death of the Heart, in its controlled structure and in the daring with which both writers force collisions of conscience and will. But perhaps the most heartening aspect of the new book is one that is almost incidental to it, the passages about Isabel and the two women friends who help her. The moments of warmth and the strains that gradually heal are written with openness and unselfconsciousness. It is as if the painfully aggressive...
...family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around to her Barnard teacher, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Her advice was to switch the narrative from the third to the first person. It took three months and transformed the book...
...frustrating incoherence marred both Ann diFruscia's "Prisma" and Elizabeth S.-Wilkerson's "When the Street Lights Come On," accenting the uneven choreography of the company. In "Prisma," large wooden angles and U-shapes hung at the back of the stage, suggesting the organizing principle of the choreography. At its best, the dance was forthright and geometric, firmly asserted on the ground and in space as a series of poses blocked and held. Too much of its tedious time-span, however, was cluttered with extraneous movement: what should have been an architecture of simplicity was badly in need of discipline...