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...others, whose mission at Harvard is less solemn, the Summer School Players offer an admirable preamble, light and witty, to a summer's labors. Director George Hamlin has managed to give life and boisterous unity to one of Shakespeare's lesser plays...
Lacking in plot, unevenly paced, and peopled with caricatures, "Love's Labour's Lost" is as much vaudeville as a comic valentine to the Renaissance theme of nature. And Hamlin is fortunate in four actors who ham it up delightfully...
...Summer School Players open their fourth season tonight at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center with a performance of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, directed by George Hamlin, assistant director of the Loeb...
...translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a King." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughts...
...Hamlin's direction, then, exploits most of the resources of the play. What is good is very, very good; what is bad is hardly worth mentioning. The world of Lear, moved by the spare, shaved verse of Shakespeare's maturest style, comes to life for most of an evening before leaving on the white robes of Lear's old sacrifices and new death. If at times the drama seems too difficult or the production too loud, we should remember that the best part of the play goes on in our minds, and, I suppose, our hearts...