Word: loeb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on a stage. But the final production of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival at the Loeb last night, offered evidence that it can be done--done well--and that Lear is as great theater as it is literature...
...translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a King." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughts...
...Loeb's commencement production of Julius Caesar is, as Brutus might say, indeed ambitious. Director Daniel Seltzer parades a huge cast (playing eighty parts) across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...
...seniors and others remaining behind however, next week's activities will include the ROTC Joint Commissioning Ceremony in the Loeb Wednesday. June 10, and Radcliffe Commencement in the Radcliffe Yard the same...
Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, the dissident CEP member, said yesterday that "the introduction to the Doty Report shows that neither the Student Body nor the Faculty is very enthusiastic about General Education at Harvard, and this after an extensive trial...