Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the family utters as he reads the new poems, Eben (low, and in beautiful excitement), "Why that bird sang thirty years ago--and sings now." Despite all this, Alison's House won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. The original production must have been awfully good. As for the present production, the punishment fits the crime...
...other times actors turned fully around for no better reason than that they were about to make an important speech. Another problem with the four sided arena stage is that the audience is brought not only physically but also emotionally very near to the characters. This is well and good when the desired effect is close identification with one or two characters, but when there are a large number of almost equally important people moving around the effect is divisive. It is perhaps significant that in its most satisfactory job this year, Jack, by Ionesco, Tufts changed the setting from...
Poetry readings are a little tough on poets and audience alike. The poet, uncertain of his audience, must perhaps pass up good poems in favor of inferior but more easily assimilated material. He is likely to find that a catchy closing couplet will draw more audience reaction than a more profound piece...
...listener is denied the luxury of pasuing at an evocative metaphor, and if he stops to puzzle over a line, he is likely to be left behind. Nevertheless, readings remain a rather popular local form of entertainment, and two Pulitzer Prize winners, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur, attracted a good hot-night crowd to New-Lowell Lec last week...
Berghof's thinking must have run something as follows: "This is a festive occasion, so I want a festive production. The author has obligingly given a good deal of license in the second part of his complete title--Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. The most famous words in the whole play are, oddly enough, the very first ones: 'If music be the food of love, play on.' Ha, look at the next words: 'Give me excess of it.' And Shakespeare has filled his text with references to songs. Of course we can't have singing without dancing...