Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a conceptual failing in director Leland Moss's rendering of Goat Island, it is that he makes Angelo, and not Agata, the play's center. This leaves the three women on too much of an equal and collectively subordinate level. Moss has had to miscast himself as Angelo, which in large measure explains this shift in emphasis, since he plays the part with too little earthly charisma, and too much surface charm, to be merely an agent of anything. Angelo emerges as a likeable rather than loveable character, and his appeal reaches as much to the audience...
...result, Jane Wingert cannot make a truly strong character out of Agata. Only at the very end, when she is on stage alone, do we get a sense that all the forces of Goat Island should direct themselves on her. And this comes as something of an anticlimax, because Moss has made almost too much of Angelo, giving him a weight he can't sustain in the play's resolution...
...after her father, an R.A.F. officer, acquired "a new and expensive wife," and announced that he could no longer afford to send her to nursing school. She got a job with a stock company in Sussex, later went on to the Royal Academy and the Old Vic. In 1952, Moss Hart brought her to the U.S. in The Climate of Eden. While working in a Wellesley, Mass., repertory company, she met Ellis Rabb, a Tennessean who had studied acting at Carnegie Tech. They got married, and a month later Rabb launched the APA and remains its strong guiding hand...
David Cornell is perfect as the braggart general -- very big and very bass. James Lardner, as the young love interest, has little poise and less animation, but he delivers a strong lyric. Leland Moss plays the part of the funny old lecher Senex as if he were not supposed to be old, lecherous, or funny. As Senex's wife, Gladys Smith has the right looks and voice, but she is a weak comedienne...
Cecil A. Roberts, Director of Buildings and Grounds, said that the University inspects all buildings at least once a year. "We will conduct an immediate and thorough inspection of all Sever classrooms," he added. "We hope to have the two closed rooms ready for use by Moss...