Word: millay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romantic Women Poets: "Elinor Wylie was the most crystalline . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay the most powerful and most popular. One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers: if only there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes...
Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...
...Experimental Theater production, directed by Chris Assini and produced by Austin Laughlin, kept the play simple and salvaged its suggestiveness in spite of frequent lapses in enunciation by the cast. Mr. Laughlin also helped to give a bit more rounded portrait of Millay by introducing five minutes' worth of her lyrical poetry, read with widely varying effect by five readers before the stage was brightened for Aria da Capo...
Soon he is at Harvard, and famous people, including Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, are reading his poetry-he notes their verdict, "that I can do a lot if I don't give up and write advertisements." He is also reading and talking prodigiously, beginning to drink, and looking for "a permanent cure for the irrational side of my unhappiness...
LOEB EXPERIMENTAL THE--ATER: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo" will be presented at the Experimental Theater on Saturday at 3 p.m. and three times on Sunday, at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. The play is produced by Austin Laughlin and directed by Chris Assini. Admission is free for all performances...