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What this production lacks in authorial wit, it compensates for by the concerted effort of cast and director. Except for a noticeable lack of energy in the Wilde offering and the shoddiness of all concerned in the Ibsen episode, the director, Clayton Koelb, manages to impose appropriate styles upon the four other parodies...
This week's Loeb Experimental Theatre production, "Time is a Dream," by H. R. Lenormand, will be presented Sunday at 3 and 3 p.m. and at 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. The play, directed by Jackson Davis and produced by Clayton Koelb, stars shapely Pam King and Skip Ascheim. No admission will be charged...
...Koelb too often substituted shouting for intensity, and his arms dangled uselessly at his side throughout most of the play. His motion, like that of practically everyone else, was occasionally very awkward and poorly blocked...
...Koelb did hint at the embivalence with which Stringberg viewed the Baron's position. There was no question in the author's mind that the Baron had been wronged; his wife was a vile creature who represented all that Strindberg feared in women. At the same time, the Baron's association with his wife had despoiled him as well, leading him into unforgivable transgressions. Koelb was both remorseful and wronged, though perhaps a shade more guilty and compassionate towards his wife than Strindberg would have wished...
...kept her stage presence well, but too often she reacted as if there was no one else on the stage; at times it seemed she was unaware of Koelb's existence, being so intent on her own expression and actions...