Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moliere's Impromptu at Versailles, now playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater along with Chekov's Swan Song, a group of actors prepare a play for presentation before the King on very short notice. The play they are preparing is an oblique reply to a recent attack on Moliere and his comedies, aind in it a group of Moliere's enemies discuss the attack. In the process they show themselves to be just the sort of people Moliere had described in his previous plays. Periodically Moliere, who is directing the inner play, interrupts the rehearsal with instructions and the actors...
...acts. But if it must accept the passage of sixteen years in little more than sixteen lines and suppress disbelief at a statue become woman, in the three acts (until the first intermission), it needs only to be carried along by one of the best casts assembled at the Loeb this year...
Clever Plan. Now Milligan and his board are being asked to recommend that Pure's shareholders sell out. What the Loeb-Consolidation-Allied group hopes to bring off is a deal that is complex but fairly common in high finance. First, the group would buy Pure's assets for $700 million, using those same assets as collateral for loans to finance the transaction. Pure then would take the $700 million, use $90 million to pay off its funded debt, and distribute the rest to holders of its 10 million shares on a $60-per-share basis. Result...
Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...
Hamlin has put Horace Armistead's imaginative, multi-level sets to good use; several scenes, especially the breaking of the oaths and the pageant of the Nine Worthies, are really funny pieces of stage business. (It's good to hear laughter in the Loeb after a spring of tragedy.) One might object that the first act is a bit slow or that the costumes are Napoleonic not Elizabethan, but such things matter little. In the hands of the Loeb players, "Love's Labour's Lost" is a frothy and fun beginning to the summer season...