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...IMAGINARY INVALID by Moliere: Harvard Dramatic Club, director Liz Coe, Loeb Mainstage May 4-6, 12-13 8:00 PM $2.25 and May 11 1:30 FREE...
WHEN ONLY A SHORT TIME left until the Festival opens, the Loeb itself is humming with rehearsal fever. On the mainstage, Liz Coe is directing Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid," the first play she has directed which is not twentieth century. In her production of "The Imaginary Invalid," Coe has fused her directorial and authorial talents by integrating three translations to compose the script, "to depart from the stiff, dull and awkward seventeenth century prosaic speech patterns to which the academic translators feel committed. But this departure from the sacred script," she goes on to explain, "is just an extension...
Playing the Festival theme of cooperation between the arts to the hilt. "Invalid" will share its set with another mainstage extravaganza, Mozart and DaPonte's "Don Giovanni," performed by the Leverett House Opera Society. Jon Miller designed the set that will be used for both shows. His main concept of the design is that "both works spring from the Renaissance, even though they date from a good deal later, and I wanted to give that feeling. The Moliere has to be something light, with lots of doors and tricks, 'Giovanni' should be something quite different...
Some laws will likely be struck down, others rewritten to apply to both sexes equally. Married women could retain their names or take the names of their husbands. Alimony could be available to either spouse; child-custody laws that specify a preference for the mother could become invalid. Many of the protective labor laws might become invalid; banning women from certain jobs because of the possibility of pregnancy could also be forbidden. Laws against prostitution could be jeopardized unless the customer is also subject to penalty...
...done extensive directing, including productions of Joe Egg and Look Back in Anger at the Loeb last year, and two one-acts, Black Comedy and The Public Eye, last fall. In May she returns to the Loeb to direct the Harvard Dramatic Club Production of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid...