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...were picketing on the sidewalk, not parading, and therefore did not need a permit. After a brief debate, the marchers simply sat down, filling a block of Decatur St. They stayed there an hour, while reporters gathered at the head of the line, interviewing Lackey and SNCC's James Forman, who was with the marches...
...must be an important figure in Barry Forman's new play, The Chambers, which opened at the Ex Saturday night; a Harvard law student named Robert Wake interrupts his return from France just to stop at Chambers' vast ancient house and talk with the famous professor. But Wake is entangled by Chambers' strange family and finds himself slipping farther and farther away from the interview he desires. Chambers never appears, and Wake finally loses his way in the labyrinthine corridors of the decaying mansion, unable to escape...
...Chambers is one of those fortunate plays that can stand without this sort of legerdemain. Forman has written, directed, and acted in a production so uniformly excellent that it can be enjoyed without looking for anything beyond what is happening on stage...
...Chambers is an extraordinarily well-balanced play. It ranges from sight gags to Baudelaire, from terror to frivolity, with admirable ease. Despite several overlong scene changes that run the play to two and a half hours, Forman keeps the action moving skillfully. He sends the actors winding in and out of Patty Grimes' sets with only candles for light, suggesting the endless passages in the enormous house. He keeps Wake waiting at the house's gate for at least two minutes until the student's unease spreads to the audience...
...addition to his other duties, Forman was forced to play the part of Mary, replacing the hospitalized Peggy Auchinloss on a day's notice. Although the audience regrettably seemed unable to forget Forman's maleness, he did a creditable...