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Somewhere in the commodious vaults where dwell the souls of playwrights dead and gone. Two figures, faces wreathed in mist, crouch over a chess table. After a time the vapours clear, and we see the faces of Bertolt Brecht and Henrik Ibsen. Brecht speaks first...
...agitated. Out of the turbulance emerges a small figure, black-haired and mustachioed. He turns three somersaults in plain view of the two authors. We discover he is Brecht's Arturo Ui. "In America," he says, "they think Three Penny Opera is a musical comedy." Brecht begins to weep. Ibsen hugs himself, pulls his knees up to his chest and falls off the chair, laughing...
Sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club, the season begins Feb. 29-March 9 with Ibsen's "The Masterbuilder," directed by Kenneth G. McBain '69. Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" follows from March 21 through March 30. Thomas J. Babe '63, teaching fellow in English and director of last December's award-winning "Prince Erie," is the director...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Enemy of the People is Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's scathing indictment of a corrupt society. James Daly won an Emmy last year for his portrayal of the idealistic doctor. Repeat...
Gyimes staged an off-Broadway revival of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea that lasted only three weeks but got Sandy an agent who wheedled her into a Palm Beach production of William Inge's Bus Stop. At the same time, Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles. She used to report in with a pun reflecting her desperation: "Dennis, anyone...