Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wellesley's Theatre on the Green deserves praise for attempting such a work, and also for their excellent rendition. Most credit should go to Director Benno Frank for his imaginative and theatrical interpretation, but he was ably assisted by a thoroughly competent cast and technical staff...
...three leads, Margaret, Faust, and Mephistopheles, make the most of their lines and play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the tightrope of maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances...
...production as a whole, however, is of a high professional quality. The play moves dramatically and well. This Theatre on the Green production does not provide a gay evening--the combination of sombre philosophy with grotesque revels does not make for frivolity--but is an incredibly exciting experience. Again, we must congratulate Group 20 for putting on this production...
...version of Faust opened at the Theatre on the Green in Wellesley Tuesday evening and will run until Saturday, August 4. It will be reviewed in next week's issue of the Summer News...
...play seems somewhat self-conscious about its own hidden meanings and symbols. In the last act, by having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening prattle that has gone before. I could accept the fact that raising a garden on chalk soil symbolized overcoming the obstacles of life, but any more detailed meaning seemed just too heavy for the dramatic structure to bear...