Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who saw the Jazz Dance Workshop at the Quincy House Jazz concert will be stunned at how much the dancers have improved for the Grant-in-Aid show. The current show is as good as any I have seen at Harvard. Color, humor, drama, and sophistication are all combined into exciting jazz dance interpretations of Gershwin's An American in Paris, John Lewis's The Comedy, and Gottschalt's and Key's Woodland Revelry...
...large group of animals perform for the King and Queen of the forest. So much goes on that it would be impossible to summarize it, except to say that most of the audience is laughing most of the time. Richard Kimmel and Eric Lessinger are hilarious foxes, exceeded in humor only by a monster which later divides into three very lovely butterflies...
...Charles Playhouse's excellent production heightens O'Casey's humor, but as an ironic foil for his sadness. The characters' sanguine outlook keeps them from taking themselves or their situation too seriously. They have time for funereal jokes while artillery shells are bursting near them. They take the the edge off their political fervor by going home with a prostitute...
...above the enchantment of the Irish humor hangs the shadow of the rebellion's failure. And our foreknowledge of this doom turns the humor slightly sour, adds to the ironic effect of each scene. At the end both the humor and the idealism have become bitter disillusionment...
...previous productions, this company deserves the highest praise. Jane Alexander as Nora is first warm with love and later mad with grief. Terrence Currier's Covey is appropriately sharp and witty, while Robert Gaus's Peter stumbles and mumbles about with humor and sympathy. The rest of the players, as well as director Michael Murray, rate equally loud applause...