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...apply the same sort of reasoning to the life and work of Lillian Hellman, you might be inclined to think that her play Another Part of the Forest, which is playing at the Loeb tonight through Saturday, lacks the ring of truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table...
...Loeb's production of Another Part of the Forest has its moments of outrageous humor and black comedy. There is, for example, a very funny scene in which Oscar Hubbard (Peter Aylward) brings home his intended, the town whore Laurette (Melanie Jones), with whom he is "deeply and sincerely in love," as he declares repeatedly in a voice of hurt pride. Laureate makes a miserable attempt to impress the self-consciously cultured Marcus Hubbard (she tells him that her uncle taught her to love Mozart, but in answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played...
...Loeb's production, too, is uneven, but its unevenness is not in synch with Hellman's unevenness. Passion drowns the humor, subtlety mocks the tragedy. The mixture of farce and drama that appears with a clear, sharp brilliance in Hellman's restrained prose looks gaudy on stage. Perhaps there are some things that, even if they are true, should not be put in plays, or short stories, or any kind of fiction. In this case at least, the raw material has a compelling directness, an understated honesty that has been lost in the transition to finished product...
Another Part of the Forest is mentioned briefly above, in something that purports to be a review. Tonight through Friday at the Loeb at 8, Saturday at 5 and 9. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people get one dollar off on tickets bought in advance, and student rush tickets...
Another Part of the Forest. Not quite up to the level of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, although it contains many of the same characters. Still worth seeing, though. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and July 21-26 at 8, except Saturdays...