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Some, however, do not. And, furthermore, vicious and nearly unrelieved horror is extremely hard to portray on a bright stage so close to the audience as is Eliot's. Within this framework of difficulties, however, the production is admirable. The director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which...
...Eliot House Drama Group yesterday announced Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus as its spring production. The play, which is Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, will be directed by Daniel Seiznick and Roger Graef, and produced by John Elliott and Eugene Pell...
Major efforts next fall will center around the production of an original script, yet to be written by a College student. Roger A. Graef '57, the organization's new vice-president in charge of productions, yesterday announced that the film group would open a competition for the script at the beginning of the fall term...
...same time, he revealed that the organization would attempt to gain either a Brattle or U.T. premiere for its recently completed all-dance film, House of Bernarda Alba. The film which is produced and directed by Graef, was made in conjunction with the Boston Conservatory of Music. Based on a play by Garcia Lorcha, it is slated to run for ten minutes...
...fight through a series of conversations with many of the eminent and some of the obscure people of her era. If such a treatment lacks the tension of a plot, it still gave the writer an opportunity to display her talent for humor, and permitted stage director Roger Graef to fill the huge Sanders Theatre platform with crowds of colorful people...