Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Robert Brustein--who is the ART's Artistic Director, Professor of English at Harvard, and theatre critic for The New Republic--has performed major surgery on Thomas Middleton's seventeenth century tragedy to resurrect it for the Loeb stage. Brustein's version of the neglected Jacobean play is a kind of amalgam with the elegance of neo-classical tragedy, the gritty flow of nineteenth century Naturalism and the thematic revelance of Modernism, yet it still manages to cohere...
...Lover and The Collection: by Harold Pinter, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, Friday and Saturday at 7:30, Saturday matinee...
Enter Mr. McGrath, with his production of Richard's Cork Leg, a bawdy, bizarre drama of Irish humor and politics. Richard's Leg should have been the foot in the door for a mass audience at the Loeb. To some extent it succeeds, but like a badly coached team, Leg trips over the basics...
...somewhat chilling the first time through, our interest soon truns to boredom as the dialogue is replayed, for we have finally understood that this is nothing more than a bad version of Jean-Paul Satre's No Exit. This kind of theater belongs in the Experimental Theater at the Loeb. On the Mainstage, it is a waste of time and space, not to mention the otherwise effective voices of the entombed...
...Lover and The Collection: by Harold Pinter, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge...