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...Quakers have strong juniors in the third and fourth spots. Serues, the son of Amherst's squash coach, and Clay Hamlin, a converted tennis player, are quick, hard-hitting competitors, though not of the same calibre as Harvard's Rick Sterne or Todd Wilkinson. Neither Wilkinson nor Sterne has ever lost a varsity match...
Part of the credit for this must go to director George Hamlin. He uses Lithgow well. Characters with nothing to say are always given something to do. The blocking is sufficiently fluid to keep the production from seeming a series of tableaux. When any of the actors give the others something believable to react to, they have an easy time of it. And throughout the production reasonably clever touches are evident which the actors simply couldn't pull...
...Hamlin had one basic problem he didn't solve, however. Comedy involves the exposure of human follies. It works by undercutting. In the plot of a play, the fool is defeated (but not destroyed) by his own errors. But the actors can also get laughs from line to line with little changes of tone and double-takes. Ideally, these two levels of revelation are linked. In this production they often weren...
...funny in Hamlin's Tartuffe, but not too much was comic. Many of the lines that got the biggest laughs were those who the actors stepped just slightly out of character where the polished diction and movement collapsed into purely American shock or embarassment. So the laughter was more at the incongruity than at an aspect of the human comedy Moliere was revealing...
George E. Hamlin Jr., assistant director of the Loeb, said yesterday that the Forum-Theatre could be "a good thing for Harvard's experimental theatre." He explained that "the Ex has been used largely as a training ground for the mainstage. If the Forum-Theatre encourages real experimental productions at the Ex instead of minor-league Loeb shows, it is to be commended...