Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small miracle takes place sometime in the course of a successful drama when the characters quite inexplicably become living people, and their story ceases to be a play and becomes life. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of Hamlet ends as a success; the miracle takes place--but not until rather late in a very long evening of theatre. This transformation really begins during the grave-digger scene, and reaches its climax in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Both scenes are entirely admirable and entirely effective...
...more than six months now, the HDC has been preparing for its production of Hamlet. The Club seems to have agreed on just what sort of a show--and what sort of an impression--it wants to give on this occasion...
...first ancestor of Hamlet was "a serious play of modern life" by Allan Davis '07 entitled The Promised Land. Produced on December 15, 1908, it dealt with the efforts of a Jewish European diplomat to lead his co-religionists back to Palestine...
...same time as the HDC is putting on a big show with Hamlet, it is interesting to note that the Club is also returning--in a small way still to be sure--to another of the founders' major objectives, namely the production of original scripts. Chapman's interest in this has played no small part in the movement, although at present it is restricted to the Workshop level. While it is nice to bring plays to Harvard which have been done at the St. James or the Globe, it is equally, if not more, valuable and exciting to produce original...
Famous Film Festival (Sat. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Part II of Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, with Jean Simmons...