Word: heartbreak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heartbreak at Home. Since 1950, when South Africa's Population Registration Act was passed to reinforce Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's "granite" apartheid policy, faceless inquisitors have been methodically dividing the entire population into neatly labeled groups: black, white, Asian and Colored. Designed to prevent racial "contamination" of the nation's 3,000,000 whites, the law gave the government power to list names, ancestry and accepted skin color of South Africa's 16 million citizens. In the process of compiling these human pedigrees, pigmentation commissars have reclassified thousands of dark-skinned Coloreds as blacks, thus...
...Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing, first conquered Everest in 1953; a Swiss party followed in 1956; and Soviet-Chinese climbers say they planted a statue of Mao Tse-tung at the top in 1960-a claim that most experts do not believe. Other expeditions met only heartbreak or death. In 1924, just 800 ft. from the summit, George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished forever into the swirling mists. And in 1952, without sleeping bags or even a stove to boil water on, a party of Swiss struggled to 28,200 ft., where sheer exhaustion forced them...
...extraneous noises were about two-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-thirds Garden St. traffic and one-third backstage foul-ups. Hector's strange speech patterns, as elucidated by Donald Lyons, are without known cause. It may seem a pointless quibble to mention the surface noise; but Heartbreak House is not the first play ever given in Agassiz, and it is the height of sloppiness not to know the auditorium's accoustical possibilities and impossibilities by opening night...
There are more serious flaws, however, including an almost total lack of directing. At the play's end, when the planes are flying over Heartbreak House and bombs are falling, the East House show crumbles right before your eyes. The play proceeds at an agonizingly slow pace until the final scene; then it races at breakneck peed over important and meaningful lines. The actors overact and over-scream consistently throughout most of the play; then there is an almost total lack of noise of excitement when the bomb falls. The bomb itself hits with a ping, instead of with...
East House deserves credit, at least, for trying such a difficult play for its first production. But by the time the planes fly over Heartbreak House near the end of the play, everyone knows the bomb dropped three hours...