Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOMETIMES AT THE Loeb Ex you get the feeling that all the pretense and profundity is gathering like rainclouds and that if one person in the audience giggled, the entire place, actors and all, would explode in laughter. A friend of mine who hates Ingmar Bergman says the same thing would be true of his films if the audience couldn't blame the stiffness of the dialogue on the subtitles. So a stage production of Persona, Bergman's 1966 film about the attempt of one woman, Elisabeth, to impose her identity upon another, Alma, starts out with two strikes against...
...record of a performance that would otherwise disappear. And cinematic techniques can be used to strengthen the impact of the play and increase its accessibility. But reversing the process is more difficult, because some means must be found to compensate for the forfeit of all the film techniques. The Loeb Persona doesn't try to make up for these lost ingredients, and is content to deal only with those bare bones of Bergman's film which did not depend on his camera. The hallmarks of the original Persona are gone without trace--Bergman's loving concentration on the faces...
...always marvel at the capacity of the liberal mind to conjure up conservative hobgob lins with which to frighten their followers into forgetting the chaos and the misery to which the practice of liberal doctrines have brought this once great nation. William Loeb President, Manchester Union Leader
...about two women, one a famous actress who's become deaf and mute, who look very much alike--it's hard to imagine how Sarah Stearns adapted it for the stage. Evidently she has, though. Opens tonight through Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...
Classics from the Russian Ballet is, presumably, classics from the Russian ballet. But perhaps it is a film. At the Loeb, Thursday-Saturday, February...