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...group numbers are all well done, and the addition of singing in the kickline number is an improvement over past years. An unusual variation is the modern dance, a clever number with only a few rough spots, and a credit to the choreographer, Robert Norris. Webster Lithgow's sets make the most of Sanders' legendary inconviences...
...Walter Lithgow is director of The Knife and has done an excellent job of interpreting the play. The stage business that is his province is expertly handled to further Hal Scott's portrayal. Richard Smithies has less luck with Ward, and is unable to work out some of the lapses in the script. Despite their few defects the plays are quite worth seeing, and today's house deserves to be full...
Most praise for what is good in the production belongs to Webster Lithgow for his really magnificent sets. Ingeniously exploiting the vastness of Sanders' stage, Mr. Lithgow uses with distinction that space which has dwarfed less skillfully-designed scenery. Essentially, the set consists of three frames, descending in size from the right side of the stage. With this arrangement, even a scene aboard the prow of a junk--projecting into the middle frame--does not seem out of place...
Sets were designed by Webster Lithgow '56, and costumes by Leslie van Zandt...
...deliberately chose to move the play as close to the audience as possible. Instead of performing on Sander's stage, they use a highly symbolic set built on a semi-arena sunk into the floor. This decision was a good one; instead of an aloofness, designer Webster Lithgow has produced a feeling of closeness that adds to the intensity. One can only wish that the individual components of the set were larger and placed further apart. Lighting, by Campbell Steward, and costumes, by Leslie Van Zandt, were excellent...