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...FINCH...
...handsome brick one in the Federalist style; erected in 1807, it was designed by Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), who was responsible for the even more impressive Old West Church and several Beacon Hill houses as well, and was Boston's foremost architectural contemporary of the great Charles Bul-finch...
Charles A. Braun of New York (History and Literature); Douglas M. Campbell of San Carlos, Calif. (Mathematics); Robert F. Carter Jr. of Chattanooga, Tenn. (English); William V.B. Damon of Cambridge (Social Relations); Robert C. Finch of Cambridge (English); J. R. Huntsberger of Palo Alto, Calif. (Economics); Roger A. Lewin of Cleveland Heights O. (Social Studies); W.F. Marzluff Jr. of Stanford, Conn. (Chemistry); Mack Phillips of Newton (History); Jeremy D. Pool of Menlo Park, Calif. (Social Relations); Jon M. Rosenblatt of New York (English); Roger E. Rosenblatt of Alexandria, Va. (Social Relations): S.L. Saltonstall of Boston (History and Literature) and Robert...
Miller was more concerned with theme than with characterization, and most of the male roles read like emblems or attitudes rather than people. As a result, an actor must add character through gesture or vocal power where the script doesn't supply it. Finch's male actors aren't good enough; all of them give unmodulated one-note performances. If an actor happens to hit the right note, as in the case of Tim Hall's paranoid Danforth, the performance can be extremely effective. But in the first two acts, Steve Hill as the nasty Reverend Parris and John Brady...
...Crucible marks the debut of the Dudley House Drama Society. It is flawed and uneven, but on the whole, Finch and his determined cast have put on a solid straightforward production of a good play...