Word: koelbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice." Granted it was opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior in many ways to the old Bentley version...
Still, one wishes that Tigar and Koelb had been able to avoid such anachronisms as "high muckamucks" and "better dead than red." And I confess to a sneaking preference for Bentley's title, The Private Life of the Master Race, which so perfectly suggests the wealth of Brechtian irony this production missed...
...Clayton Koelb as Holofernes, the scholastic, totters about the stage mumbling ridiculous Latin boobies in a suberb spoof on pedantry...
...play is at its best with Lopez-Cepero, Kornbluth, Mills, and Koelb, it is still good when the men of Navarre are lured from their books to woo the ladies of France. Of the eight lovers, Shakespeare only gave Berowne, (Richard Monett), the Princess (Barbara Jean Friend), and the King (David Rittenhouse) substantial parts, and Monette and Miss Friend are for the most part equal to their tasks...
Also: Duncan M. Kennedy; Clayton T. Koelb, Jr.; Leslie Lessinger; John M. Lewis; Richard H. Masland; Leonard A. Merewitz; Frederick V. Mulhauser; Carl D. Offner; David F. Phillips; Michael D. Platt; Joe A. Porter; Marc J. Roberts; Edward K. Schmookler; George S. Shapiro; James C. Sherburne; William F. Sibley; Nathaniel B. Smith; Martin C. Spechler; Michael R. Stein; John E. Terrell; Andreas W. Teuber; Stephen N. Thomas; Kenneth L. Tigar; Stephen F. Tobias; Richard Weisskoff; Francis A. Westbrook III; and John C. Wilcox...