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Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Republican Thomas H. Kean led by a narrow margin over Democrat Rep. James J. Florio...
...MOST EVIDENT PROBLEM of this production is an environmental one. Katherine Kean's rendition of Ibsen's A Doll's House is staged at the far end of the Eliot House library. The tiny set--as deep as it is wide--resembles a box, framed at left and right by huge bookcases and poorly lit by desk and floor lamps. In the director's mind, this design concept probably seemed like a great imaginative flourish, the small claustrophobic set symbolizing the title. Or, perhaps, Kean meant to heighten the immediacy of Ibsen's "living room tragedy...
Like the set and lighting design, the other elements of the production suffer more form misconception than from poor quality. Kean has her actors play their scenes broadly, often replacing tragedy with hokey melodrama, inspiring peals of unintentional laughter from the audience...
...crumble into meaninglessness. The only spontaneity occurs when three-year-old Tyler Vogt, as one of Nora's sons, toddles onstage and glares at the audience. He's just as confused as the rest of the cast, but he doesn't try to hide it. Whatever the faults of Kean and company, their determination is clear, their failure noble...
...course, largely because Bradley was-in sharp contrast to flamboyant General George S. Patton Jr.-a methodical, textbook commander who shunned flashy or risky tactics. Instead, he trusted meticulous preparation for slow, cautious assaults that held a solid chance of success. When a fellow officer, Major General William B. Kean Jr., expressed a mild worry about the awesome task of planning for the Normandy invasion, Bradley replied: "But, Bill, who in the Army knows more about it than...