Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tale" shifts from the wintry tragedy of its first part to the vernal romance of its second. Ripping apart the links of that Great Chain of Being with disease and death in the first acts, the play reassembles them with health and life in the last ones. The Loeb Ex version of this mythic renewal breathes life, but not robust good health...
MACBETH, by William Shakespeare. The Crimson reviewer liked it. He said Nixon should let the draft resisters come back, though. And he was right. Tonight through Saturday, 8 p.m. at the Loeb...
...WINTER'S TALE, by William Shakespeare. This play's last two acts feature an appearance by Autolycus, the snapper-up of unconsidered trifles who's one of the funniest characters in any play. It's also the third Shakespeare play the Loeb's put on in the last two weeks. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...
...Tyre" only scarcely joined together in a scattered plot. The play has been attributed to a handful of people and Shakespeare is said to have written very little of it, so there is no sacrilege in the efforts of Randy Echols to rewrite and improve. The production at the Loeb Ex makes a success out of the doctored script with several Leob veterans who have coordinated their schedules to produce a cast of rare balance...
...HAVE TO ADMIT THAT MACBETH might have something to do, these days, with electronic sound apparati, but there's no need to push the point. The relevant equipment is certainly not the stuff they use backstage at the Loeb, although those toys would tempt anyone to tyranny, and I sometimes think, have put the electricians in charge over there. But I only mention this as a warning: Director Emily Mann seems to have kept the play mostly honest, except for a few damned spots like the prophetic mike in the witches's cauldron or wherever the hell the unintelligible thing...