Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, Frank I. Michalman, professor of Law, and Vorenberg all agreed that Richardson should appoint the head investigator...
Despite its author's classification, the play is lightly and rather shallowly satiric. It is also, like all Shaw, enormously difficult to act. And without vigorous guidance from director Catherine Clinton concerning the meaning of the play, the actors in the Loeb Ex production are not quite equal to the task of making The Philanderer an amusing and coherent statement, though some of them individually make talented efforts. That no common conception of the play is shared by the director and the cast is quickly betrayed by the difficulty several actors have getting their lines straight; they often seem oblivious...
...properties and costumes are a hodgepodge of tailor-made objects and hand-me-downs altered slightly for the play. Their make-shift nature is not a disadvantage. Free from the dazzling technical equipage of the Loeb's main theater, the Ex affords an atmosphere in which an audience can concentrate at close range on the crucial aspects -- the acting and the meaning of the text -- of a difficult play like The Philanderer. In this atmosphere, the experiment at the Ex this weekend, if not completely successful, is worth performing...
Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, notes that the analysis of this infanticide-euthenasia discussion ultimately poses the question, "If one is, without fault on his part, a threat to the well-being of others, may those others in good conscience remove the threat to enhance their own lives and the lives of others dependent on them...
...PHILANDERER. Shaw on Ibsen clubs and liberated groupies. 7:30 at the Loeb...