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...Shakers of Hancock, Mass., meant it. They prepared their spotless robes by maintaining strict celibacy in their community of 200-odd men and women-cohabitation of married couples was forbidden, and "sisters" and "brethren" had separate entrances and hallways in their houses. They lived lives of calculated simplicity, sheltered the indigent and orphaned, and diligently tried to carry out the teaching of their founder: "Put your hands to work and your hearts...
After two weeks, it seems, Mr. Hancock and his company have discovered how good they can be when they try. Antigone is first-rate theatre...
Director John Hancock, fortunately, has recognized the importance of the unheroic king; and his giving the role to Paul Barstow has been one of his most intelligent directorial decisions to date. Mr. Barstow can deliver his lines with just the proper amount of quiet, stiff and confused earnestness. A "cook" in the "kitchen" of politics Antigone calls him; but he is not wholly contemptible--and Mr. Barstow makes him as much a king as he is a compromiser...
...John Hancock's production of As You Like It, the current offering of the Harvard Summer Players certainly fulfills and overfulfills these minimum criteria. Most of the actors both knew their lines and were able to speak them quite clearly. And, of course, not a few of them are a good deal better than that. As Rosalind, Jane Quigley is lively, deft, and confident. If her manly colloquialisms as the youth Ganymede occasionally savor more of the Bronx than of the Home Counties, why it is all spirited and very amusing...
...other criteria that I postulated earlier were met by Mr. Hancock whose direction was quick, witty, and ever resourceful, and by Ian Strasfogel, whose all-purpose sets evoked the court of France and the forest of Arden with equal grace and imagination. In fine, it was a pleasant evening, and that it was not a particularly challenging one for either actors or audience is really not a reasonable ground for complaint. I cannot complain...