Word: night
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...explain all this because it relates strongly to my reaction to The Three Sisters , which opened on the Loeb mainstage Thursday night. As I entered the theatre, I was just not in any condition to function as a journalist: I was physically exhausted and emotionally pre-occupied. In this context, maybe you can understand how remarkable it is to me that Leland Moss's production of the Chekhov play not only kept me awake for its entire three-and a-quarter hour duration-but sometimes even succeeded in making me forget everything else except what the actors on stage were...
...work has explosions underneath much of its surface, some of the play is just surface. For the purposes of a "poor" theatre, the Chekhovian detail that is not sitting on top of emotional volcanoes is useless. No doubt Moss will encourage his company to try new things every night, and certainly one thing he will try to do is cut out the "rich" parts of the script. After all, the goal is the climination of virtually all words...
Still, as of opening night, enough pure cathartic moments were spread over the three hours to make one forget about the periods of waste. And when those moments came, the cast- uniformly one of the hardest working ones I have ever seen- usually held little back as they shared them with the audience...
...same attitude could hurt Harvard tonight. but there is little chance that it will take the Indians lightly. A careless defensive game Thursday night and a discouraging lack of polish in the Northeastern end of the rink showed the Crimson that it can lose to a squad that is far inferior in ability if it neglects to take it seriously. And Harvard will be careful to keep it from happening again...
Dartmouth's first line of Chico Davidson Jeff Kosak and Steve Arndt is fairly potent, but is newly formed, and at its best, should not compare with either of Harvard's first two lines, unless the Crimson performs as poorly as it did Thursday night...