Word: gerhardi
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They ran into a mud wall with the play they had chosen--Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon." The Dramatic Club didn't exactly tear down the goal-posts with its fig-leaved presentation of "Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...
Next winter's production will be the first venture into Shakespeare for the yearling Workshop. Following their world premiere of Gerhardi's "I Was A King in Babylon" last fall, the VTW turned to the student body for the choice of their next play. A special poll indicated a preference for Shaw and "St. Joan" hit the Sanders boards...
Faced with an involved and drastically over-long play, the new dramatic group cut it to workable length, cast it faithfully, and struggled manfully to wring all the laughs possible from William Gerhardi's first attempt at playwriting. The essential fault that Kilty and Company failed to recognize, however, was their original choice of vehicle--an impossibly dramatic, wordy, technically cumbersome work...
...Gerhardi billed his play as a "satire on reincarnation," equipping it with twentieth-century characters incarnated from every other reasonable period of history: Catherinc the Great, Genghis Khan, and others of their ilk. Perhaps his idea was worthwhile; at any rate his results were...
Struggling against odds to reseue the production from Mr. Gerhardi were the two leads, Mendy Weisgal and Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...