Word: girandoux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girandoux' dialogue tends to preach, and the HTG's cast was not able to overcome that, June Garfield, Cannaught O'Connell, and David Bowen came the closest perhaps, the rest of the east ranged from good to weak, and showed an opening night predisposition towards blowing its lines. Giraudoux' dialogue also suffers in the translation (example: "Ajax is the meanest plug ugly among the Greeks") and there was nothing the HTG could do about that. Perhaps the Fogg Court will cut down both the immobility and the talkiness of tonight's HTG production, but it will do little to remedy...
Pirle Tuchings '54 and Connaught O'Connell '52 are shown primping for tonight's 8:30 p.m. opening of "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in Wellesley's Alumnae Hall. The modern anti-war satire by Jean Girandoux, author of "Mad Woman of Chaillot," opens in the Central Court of Fogg...
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