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David Bowen '51, founder of the Harvard Theatre Group, returned yesterday from a three-month tour of England and Israel to appear in the production of "An Enemy of the People." HTG president Harold Stone '53 announced last night...
...some unexplained reason, this production was cancelled; the groups decided to go their separate ways. And so this week we find ourselves with two openings, the HDC's "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and the HTG's "An Enemy of the People" on Wednesday and Friday respectively. Next week ushers in the annual Hasty Pudding show, "Seeing Red" (Thursday) and the Annex Idler's "The Doll's House" (Friday...
...HTG was supposed to be a training outfit for the parent Brattle Hall people and started operations modestly with performances by stroking players in the Houses...
...rivalry between the HDC and the HTG began in 1946 when the Theatre Group's predecessor, the Veteran's Theatre Workshop, was organized by a group of veterans headed by Jerome A. Kilty...
Girandoux' dialogue tends to preach, and the HTG's cast was not able to overcome that, June Garfield, Cannaught O'Connell, and David Bowen came the closest perhaps, the rest of the east ranged from good to weak, and showed an opening night predisposition towards blowing its lines. Giraudoux' dialogue also suffers in the translation (example: "Ajax is the meanest plug ugly among the Greeks") and there was nothing the HTG could do about that. Perhaps the Fogg Court will cut down both the immobility and the talkiness of tonight's HTG production, but it will do little to remedy...