Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This time, in the absence of fig-leaf and reincarnation, critical interest will center around the quality of the production rather than the meaning of pompous and obscure authors. In Shaw's "St. Joan" and Odets' "Waiting For Lefty," local thespians have two tested and playable dramas, while the HDC's additional offering, Saroyan's "The Ping-Pong Players," can turn out to be almost anything, and probably will...
...worth of the two theater groups. Having expressed their preference in the veteran group's poll last month for Shaw as an author and for English satire and sophisticated comedy as a category, students will get a compromise from the veterans in the non-comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This puts it up to students themselves to demonstrate, on the one hand, if they will back up lunch-time enthusiasm with action at the box-office, and on the other, if the poll...
With a full spring term schedule before him, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 yesterday completed casting and started rehearsals for three coming plays. "Amphytryon 38", first of the reading theatre productions, is slated for presentation next Tuesday, while a double-feature production of "Waiting For Lefty" and "The Ping-Pong Players" will hit the boards in mid-March...
...March production will be the first double bill the HDC has presented. "Waiting For Lefty" is a social dram of labor movement, and will be shown as a contrast to "The Ping-Pong Players," a light Saroyan love-story acted while the two characters play ping-pong on stage...
Neither being full-length shows, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 plans to contrast Odets' powerful social drama with Saroyan's light comedy as an experiment in theater technique. "Waiting for Lefty" is a drama of the labor problem, while "The Ping-Pong Players" is a light one-act love scene...