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...dreariest, its form is dazzling. Director Timothy Mayer is as brilliant as ever at filling the stage with one arresting tableau after another in cinematic succession, and his imagination never fails him in inventing show-stopping sight-gags, which are the life-energy of low comedy. Set-designer Clayton Koelb has shown a genius for translating these sight-gags into usable pieces of stage machinery...
Many of the smaller parts were nicely done. Cutler, by some magic process, manages to make humor out of grotesque, voweled mumbling--and, more important, keeps the device from swelling into a gigantic bore. Clayton Koelb is a lusty schnitzel, the Viennese whose speech problem is ignorance of French. Koelb's German is clean, his legs are in fine order, and his desire to bed some Fraulein is unshakable...
...interpretation of Woyzeck, all this is drastically oversimplified; I can hear Tim Mayer and his cast laughing already. However, the mood of the play is one of total futility of existence. And this Mayer has captured economically by using a revolving set (designed by Clayton Koelb) pushed by Woyzeck and other characters in changing from scene to scene. At worst, the unpolished mechanics of the revolve made for some visually awkward scene transitions in the first act. But most of the time, especially when Woyzeck did the pushing, the slow turning of the set neatly captured the hopelessness of Woyzeck...
Paul Ba'muth '69, Syd Lieberman '66, and Clayton Koelb '65 will read selections from their own works at 7 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
...group-masturbation scene performed powerfully by actors who were slaughtering lines only a moment before. It is a pity the professors' comic scene should have been lost, for it is the best work in a new and much more precise translation by Harvard graduate students Kenneth Tiger and Clayton Koelb...