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Director Albert Marre has unfortunately decided virtually to ignore Robert O'Hearn's monumental set in Sanders, but his work on Joan seems commendable in every other way. He has quite wisely let the play run close to its original length of three and a half hours, and his idea about the fifteenth century pronounciation of "Protest-ant" and "nation-alism," wherever it came from, seems positively inspired. Caldwell Titcomb's musical score, which ranges from a shepherd's melody to a full-dress motet, is not only decorative but functional. In the epilogue it takes care of the wind...
Certainly the C.F.D. need bow to no theatre anywhere on the matter of a stage itself. The "modified Elizabethan" set that Robert O'Hearn had designed in Sanders has classic beauty. Its four distinct staging levels and its simple lines provide infinitely various opportunities for blocking, for lighting effects, and for wonderful fadeout exits. And O'Hearn has not only made the set beautiful and functional; he has also blended it in perfectly as an integral part of Sanders Theatre. It will really be a shame to see the thing dismantled in the fall...
...extravagant but not ostentatiously so, and Caldwell Titcomb, whose music is colorful and strong. In the last act, for a final daub of stage color, Seale and Titcomb have collaborated to introduce a boys' choir singing an original 15th century motet. Perched on the very top of O'Hearn's set, the boys seem almost as high up as a choir should...
...regard to the Festival's distinctive stage setup, Robert O'Hearn, a young New York stage designer, has designed an architectural set that takes advantage of the best features of Sanders Theatre and its Elizabethan with a simple, flexible structure of beams and scaffolding rising behind one side of the main platform...
...travels to the Far East, Author Lafcadio Hearn wrote in 1904: "Here, all is enchantment. You have entered bodily into Fairyland-into a world that is not and never can be your own. You have been transported out of your century into an era forgotten, back to something as ancient as Nineveh." In 1956 nearly 75,000 U.S. visitors, more than ever before, will journey to the Far East looking for some of the same enchantment. The main travel spots...