Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Anderson deserves endless praise for leading American theater into relevance, it must also be noted that sometimes his techniques didn't work. Unfortunately, Winterset is one of those plays that didn't work; at least it doesn't now, forty-odd years after its premiere. In its relentlessly hammering sweep of great social themes, the powerful story of a star-crossed couple's evanescent love is overwhelmed and rendered somewhat cloying and melodramatic. Mixed into this background are poverty, injustice, collective as well as individual culpability, and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...
...Pool Hall on the second floor of the Freshman Union will be open from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., 7 days a week, $2/table/hour with maximum of 4 persons per table. You must present Summer School...
...John Wright Stevens is a curtained belvedere that does not lend itself well to the different locations called for in the play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back or even chucking it entirely...
...suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...
...avoided the crash and lived for another 50 years. Joe protests his early departure to heaven and the mistake is soon discovered by another celestial bureaucrat (played by they oh-so-suave James Mason). Unfortunately, Joe's own body has been cremated, so a new body suitable for him must be found...