Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hats off, gentlemen, to Lucien Price's admirable suggestion that Goethe's Faust be performed annually in the Loeb Drama Center. This epic pageant wrestles with what are possibly the most significant themes in civilized thought, and it is arguably the greatest literary achievement between Shakespeare and Dostoevski...
...attempt by Alice Raphael, and a new one by Walter Kaufmann that is just now reaching the booksellers. But there is a superbly fashioned fresh translation (of both Part One and Part Two) by Philip Wayne, in the Penguin Classics series; and I urge its adoption for the first Loeb production...
That fewer plays are being presented at Harvard this year than in any recent year, that more professional actors are being used in student productions, that fewer students are involved in the theater than have been for the past five or ten years are all incontrovertible facts. The Loeb Drama Centr may not be the role cause of the sudden apathy, but a new policy on the part of the Loeb Committee may do much to alleviate...
...would be absurd to talk about the play, one of Ibsen's greatest dramatic poems, since Ronder offered no interpretation of it at the Loeb. The mad scene was the only really effective one in the badly paced and chaotic production, and it is a pity that I must recommend that it be missed...
Viereck extended the discussion of art and conformity to The Tree Witch, his new play dealing with the problem. The play will be presented by the Poet's Drama theatre at the Loeb, May 31 to June...