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...resolve this concern, a decision on any controversial submissions will be made by four committee members: Harry R. Lewis '68, dean of the College; Eric C. Engel, director of the Memorial Hall/Lowell Complex; Myra A. Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts; and James E. Lenhart '99, who will provide a student perspective...
Steven A. Engel bows to consumerism and wishes a happy day to his own valentine...
Dramatically Engel treats the audience like another character by addressing it directly. Talking to the audience rather than at it seems to acknowledge as well just how difficult the material is to sit through. All the monologues are autobiographical, so coming from the dead they sound like confessions or complaints, and the tone becomes an issue of stamina...
That's not Engel's fault. Old, stale, dead material is inherent to the play. Engel's solution effectively takes the edge off this problem. It makes the audience more receptive listeners--somewhat like Dante in Hell, bearing witness to final testimonials and recriminations. But unlike Dante, Masters was fond of his kin; no one is damned. The audience is asked not to judge folk for their failings but to pay attention to the actors' performances and deft versatility. Engel makes acting an integral factor in how memory is constructed...
...Engel's production works best as a record of how people reconstruct their pasts; the subject itself, which relates a lot of all-too-familiar hardship, has lost its impact. Spoon River is occasionally sad, seldom funny, but not meant to be either. Nor is it meant to be tragic. Rather the mood is elegiac in that it tries to describe the need for people to tell their stories as they would like them to be remembered. History, according to Spoon River, is constructed piecemeal and painstakingly from scraps assembled and melded together...