Word: forested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes three nights a week, Mike is usually to be found studying at home, playing tennis with Gayle or tending the small garden plot lent them by a neighbor. Gayle, whose father is a junior high school principal in Catonsville, Md., met Mike when they were students at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. They both worship in an Episcopal church, and Mike is preparing himself for the Christian youth work he one day hopes to take...
Another Part of the Forest, Lillian Hellman's sequel to The Little Foxes (though it takes place 20 years before the first play) continues at the Loeb, at least until tomorrow. At 8 p.m. tonight and at 5 and 9 Saturday. Tickets $5.50 and $6.50, $1 off for Harvard-affiliated people, and $3.75 for students...
...great success, but Hellman felt it had been misinterpreted, taken too seriously. In 1946, Hellman writes in Pentimento. "I believed that I could now make clear that I had meant the first play as a kind of satire. I tried to do that in Another Part of the Forest, but what I thought was funny or outrageous the critics thought straight stuff: what I thought was bite they thought sad, touching or plotty and melodramatic. Perhaps, as one critic said, I blow a stage to pieces without knowing it." The third part of the planned trilogy was never written...
...Loeb's production of Another Part of the Forest has its moments of outrageous humor and black comedy. There is, for example, a very funny scene in which Oscar Hubbard (Peter Aylward) brings home his intended, the town whore Laurette (Melanie Jones), with whom he is "deeply and sincerely in love," as he declares repeatedly in a voice of hurt pride. Laureate makes a miserable attempt to impress the self-consciously cultured Marcus Hubbard (she tells him that her uncle taught her to love Mozart, but in answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played...
Another Part of the Forest is mentioned briefly above, in something that purports to be a review. Tonight through Friday at the Loeb at 8, Saturday at 5 and 9. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets bought in advance, and student rush tickets...