Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible that years from now, when all of Brecht's plays have been performed and assessed, Trumpets and Drums will be considered one of the most successful, at any rate one of the most playable, of all. Certainly its American premiere performance at the Loeb is one of those all-too-rare occasions when all the technical resources of Harvard's drama center have been applied by a skilled cast to a play that is absolutely worth all the effort...
Chapman's direction is wonderfully sharp; a series of gimmicks keeps the comic scenes rolling and the company makes excellent use of Horace Armistead's sets, the best the Loeb has seen in a long time. The sets are lavish and contain a lot of the props necessary to keep the action rolling, but they permit the visible-to-the-audience scene changes Brecht called...
...Broker-Manager Helmsley, 56, pioneered the promotion of large-scale syndicates. Much of their property is held in common with about 10,000 other people, disarmingly described by Helmsley as "friends who go into these investments with us." The pals have included Wall Streeters John L. Loeb and Clifford W. Michel, and the syndicated holdings range from Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to properties in Los Angeles, Detroit, Buffalo, Dayton and Daytona Beach...
...that The Waiter is an "easy" play. does not bury his audience kling little nuggets of like Beckett's "Ah, earth, extinguisher!", and it is overlook or ignore much Dumb Waiter's depth. Loeb production I overall gentleman explain to his "The Dumb Waiter two hired killers who get from upstairs; Happy about boredom and the of life...
Unfortunately, the Loeb production conveys little sense of an integral relationship between the wild arguments over the semantics of the phrase "to light a kettle" or a disputed penalty at a soccer game, and the actual dramatic situation of the play. These outbursts are the logical result of the tension which arises from the interminable wait for the victim's arrival. But the Loeb production does not make the audience conscious of a mounting tension...