Word: mullin
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...would only disagree with de Ghelderode that Miss jairus is an undesirable play-it is a difficult play. Instead of commenting in detail on the performance, I simply rejoice that at last a competent director, Donald C. Mullin, and cast and staff are giving the play a careful and imaginative production in this country...
...Tufts Summer Theater production of William Congreve's The Way of the World is a travesty. It is enough to make someone who had not read the play think it a comedy--and not a very good one at that. Director Donald Mullin has chosen to deemphasize all that is grim about the play--which is precisely the element that makes it Congreve's masterpeice--and to focus on the humor. Unfortunately the humor falls flat...
...think the primary blame for all must go to Mullin. It seems that so many trained actors would play their parts in such limited fashions without being instructed to. And in that each actor does have some style of behavior while on stage, he is consistent...
...freedom: Mirabell is not to do this or that, Millamant is forswear such and such. The talk is very formal, but the two characters' emotions should be seen breaking through. Miss Cole and Gray played the scene like a pair of lawyers, however. This can only have been Mullin's idea, and I think it is an example of what his approach did to the play. Instead of seeing a pattern of fortune emerge from the fabric of polite convention, we see a series of incidents. Insteal of seeing people's emotions below the witty talk, we hear...
...supposed to have been to , better read than seen. Perhaps so. I think an age that found it necessary to give Shakespeare's tragedies happy endings more likely had difficulty appreciating the "high seriousness" of the play than the raillery. But whichever is the case, it is strange that Mullin should have expected a 20th Century audience to respond to Restoration with which, according to tradition at least, was too complex for a Restoration audience. And it is strange, too, that he should have relied on the spectacle and the humor for his chief effect, when he had an audience...