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...enduring human spirit, begins its first weekend of performances tonight at the Loeb. This is the Summer Repertory Theater's last production of the season, and its most difficult one. Sustaining an actionless duologue is no simple feat, but the play manages to carry it off. Joanne Hamlin, who delivers most of the lines in the show, gives a fine performance under difficult circumstances. Still, the play and the production are not too satisfying. Geoff Garin's review appears on page two of this issue. Tickets for the weekend cost $5.95. Tonight's show begins at 8, tomorrow the curtain...
...DIFFICULTY with the Loeb's production of Happy Days is largely a problem of interpretation. Director George Hamlin, a leading figure in the drama center's rise to regional prominence, doesn't ever really do very much with the relationship between Winnie and Willie, part of a more general and more alarming failure to allow the questions raised by Beckett to come out in any clear light...
...will sell off 275 works by local artists--they've been on display at the Prudential Center all week, and you can place written bids up until air time. But it's more fun to tune in and succumb to the lures of the auctioneers (like Kevin White, Sonya Hamlin and other local notables) who encourage you to "Stay at Home and Bid by Phone." The best show on TV is the proper society lady struggling to get all the bids chalked up on the blackboard as more and more and still more keep coming...
...Sonya Hamlin. One of the two sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as "atomic spies" in 1953, talks the dispute about his parents' guilt. Ch. 4, 9 a.m. 1 hour...
...outcome. Unfortunately, the Loeb production lacks even that tension. Part of the failure can be blamed on Brecht's dialogue, which has a stiffness that marks his characters as unreal figures, as mere vehicles for statements. To a large extent, however, the fault lies with the uneven acting. George Hamlin, as Galileo, has a powerful, expressive voice, but he seems to have trouble remembering his lines. Some of his slips and stammers fit in with the image of an absent-minded, introverted scientist, but too many of them are obvious mistakes. His daughter Virginia, who should earn our sympathy when...