Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank you for Marshall Loeb's cogent Essay on inflation [April 10]. I'm more than willing to make the sacrifices and cast the votes to give Loeb's proposals a chance...
...love directing--it's like saying, 'Why do you love this person?' It's multifarious, intellectual and personal." Or at least it is when Havergal directs. And exuberant, theatrical and infectious, according to the cast that has worked with him for the last two months on the Loeb Mainstage production of Beaumarchais' Figaro...
Havergal recently accepted a long-standing invitation from George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, to come over from his home in Glasgow, Scotland to direct a student production of a play of his choice. In Glasgow, Havergal directs and manages the Citizens' Theatre, which houses a small, active repertory company. One of his partners is playwright Robert David MacDonald, who adapted and translated two plays by Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais into this Figaro, and who has also been a recent guest director at the Loeb. "We're always looking for people who can make a rare contribution to theater...
...that the company is on vacation, Havergal has found the time to direct at the Loeb, and to do a recent Regent's Lectureship on Drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he lectured on theater management ("I love the Barnum and Bailey part of it all," he says), and conducted a directing workshop. "I was particularly keen to come here and work with students on a production," Havergal says, "because I haven't done any work with them since I left college [Oxford...
...week before the opening, the 11 actors in the production split into two groups and began to scream Italian gibberish and profanity at each other, five actors onstage, and six at the top of the Loeb auditorium. "All right," says Havergal in a beautiful, melodious British accent that sounds just like every British accent ought to sound, "Now choose some lines of yours in the play, and let's hear you deliver them in the same tone to each other." While the five actors onstage proceed to do so, Havergal huddles with his group at the top and begins whispering...