Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fireworks display of Timothy Mayer's Good Woman of Setzuan isn't quite the conflagration we'd been banking on. Some of the powder is damp, and some poorly packed. But when everything goes off on time, as it fortunately does in most of the play's crucial scenes, the pyrotechnics are well worth watching...
...Mayer has placed an enormous burden on his cast, his technical crews and himself, and none of the three is able to sustain it for any protracted length of time. Brecht's play, as Mayer presents it, is a visual extravaganza. For once in a Loeb production the costumes--fiery red for the Gods, warm tans, greens and yellows for everyone else--have some relevance to the set's color scheme. But the set shakes frighteningly. The set, like the ensemble scenes in the first and second acts still needs a few day's work...
...Mayer seems to have captured in his mind both the humor of the play and the dark question underneath, it but as of yet, he hasn't gotten it all onstage. Mayer, as always, has orchestrated constant movement for his actors, individually and ensemble. But his cast swears awfully hard following his directions...
...Saturday, the executive committee elected Peter A. Jaszi `68 to succeed Mayer and Ascheim...
...substantial majority of the 40 HDC members attending yesterday's meeting voted in support of Mayer's recommendation...