Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, he reminds us, in a line emblazoned on the set, that his aim is "to illumine all our sorry state, not only that of Germany." What this production does best, however--in fact, about the only thing it does well--is to illumine the sorry state of the Loeb, which persists in staging mediocre productions of mediocre plays by playwrights who should have known better...
Last year this policy resulted in the performance of such gems as More Stately Mansions, probably the worst play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote, and Ibsen's four-hour monstrosity Peer Gynt, which lost half its audience at intermission. The Tutor, unfortunately, stands squarely in this venerable Loeb tradition, succeeding neither as allegory nor as entertainment...
...humorous sequences in The Tutor, Fritz's father, after listening to him generously forgive his sweetheart's unfaithfulness, presents him with the product of her dalliance, a baby boy. "My son," he says, "having justified the cause, will you shrink back from the effect?" If the effect of Loeb attempts to breathe life into second rate plays is to produce more debacles like this one, a little shrinking back, not to mention a plucking out of the offending eye, might not be such a bad idea...
...time between Rosovsky's charge and the report's issuance was crucial, the present HDC executives having been elected on an anti-elitist platform, and containing at least five members with ties to drama organizations outside the Loeb...
These executives argue that past abuses have been corrected, and there is no need for a new drama council--the HDC will continue to work fine, they say, if its constitution is amended to provide for mandatory non-Loeb representation on future boards...