Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday morning the line of people waiting for tickets stretched from the Loeb theatre lobby out to Brattle St. Even with this demand for tickets, however, the Loeb ticket office says that the bulk of sales came on mail orders from large school groups...
Ticket sales for the Loeb productions of Julius Caesar and King Lear are moving faster than "a guilty thing upon a fearful summons...
Daniel Seltzer, acting director of the Loeb and the director for Julius Caesar, said that both plays will be produced in the traditional Elizabethan style. The Loeb stage will be extended forward so the audience surrounds it on three sides...
...happily, the Loeb reading does credit to the drama. John Lithgow as Edward does admirably in a difficult role, and dominates the evening. His Edward is perfectly true to Marlowe's--sensitive, sometimes indecisive, but consciously royal. Lithgow's diction, like everyone's, is almost perfect, though he stumbles too often in a few of his lines. But his voice covers the range between rage and self-pity easily, and his movements are the most effective in the show. His best moment--and the play's--is the death scene, where he communicates fully the terror of his murder...
...Loeb people advertise their Festival by asking rather brashly, "Can you afford to miss these masterpieces of your culture?" In the case of Edward II," at least, we hardly...