Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explanation seemed inadequate at the time, but when I tried writing verse of my own, I found that, as far as it went, the statement was true. By the same token, there seems to be an advantage in putting on plays in the Adams House Dining Room or the Loeb Experimental Theatre. This year, at least, Harvard drama thrived on limitation...
...five straight plays performed on the Loeb main stage this year, only Jonathan Black's production of The Seagull was outstanding--and that, ironically enough, was a play the Faculty Committee on Theatre had originally rejected as too difficult (only after the Harvard Dramatic Club reiterated its desire to do the play did the committee give...
...four offerings of the Adams House Drama Society--three plays and a concert reading--on the other hand were stunning. The Beggar's Opera, directed by John Lithgow, old out halfway through its run, and won the coveted Commencement slot at the Loeb. Of the plays I saw at the Ex, three--The Public Eye, directed by Michael D. Schlesinger, The Forced Marriage, directed by Lithgow, and The Chambers, written and directed by Barry Forman--ranked with the Adams House shows...
...large measure the failure of the spring season at the Loeb, which reportedly set record lows on ticket sales, results from the choice of plays. Buechner's Danton's Death proved far too rhetorical, and a play with a passive protagonist must inevitably drag. James A. Culpepper's Phyllis Anderson Award-winning Treason at West Point combined inept dialogue and inadequate characterization. It was barely competent. Anthony Graham-White's adaptation of Johnson, Marston, and Chapman's Eastward Ho! had more potential--it suffered most from a lack of good comic actors. But the play is hardly an old standby...
Instead of moments of ecstasy, last night's show contained careful stagework and musicianship. Isiah Jackson conducted with his usual controlled excellence, and Lithgow's farcical staging was broad and bouncy. Hi show, though it seemed more at home in Adams House, certainly fits the Loeb's main stage in size and sound...