Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mr. Allen Ginsberg, Mr. Gregory Corso and Mr. Peter Orlovsky were greeted by a crowd which filled New Lecture Hall to capacity-although the audience thinned out somewhat during the course of the evening-and several hundred were turned away...
Garbed in the extremely informal attire which has become their trademark, Mr. Corso and Mr. Ginsberg read extensively from alternately long and short poems, with Mr. Corso showing a much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
...arena at the Charles Playhouse is set by Robert G. Skinner with a few solid, bare beams, evocative of Puritan living conditions and symbolic of the strong, harsh, undecorated, uneuphemistic outlook of the Puritan soul. To some degree this is Mr. Miller's outlook too, and according to it he has made a sturdy play, admirable in many aspects and intermittently powerful...
...many of the characters are not as vivid as they might be, it is not entirely the fault of the actors. There is some slight sense that they were a second thought on Mr. Miller's part, as if he regarded them simply as a means to his end of writing about the implications of witch-hunting. He appears to be a Brechtean at heart, but not in manner, and so has neither produced a passionate parable a la Brecht, nor created particularly memorable autonomous characters in the naturalistic tradition...
...occasional note of strain and shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...