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Students in Hum 4 will stage several one-act productions at the Loeb Experimental Theatre this Spring, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, said yesterday. Students enrolled in the course will direct the plays and do all the acting and technical work...
...different worship forms. At M.I.T., chapel services have included everything from jazz Masses to a dance by a Radcliffe girl in leotards. Episcopal Father Malcolm Boyd, a "chaplain-at-large" to U.S. college students, often starts a prayer service with a reading from Edward Albee or from one of his own one-act plays about racial conflict...
...Knack originally was a talky, one-act play (by Ann Jellicoe), and in opening it up, Lester set himself a difficult challenge, which he compounded by his non-naturalistic approach. Yet he is strikingly successful. His hallmark is a jumpy, free-association style of editing, and The Knack is made up of very short scenes like blackout sketches and several longer set pieces (such as the already-famous one in which Colin, Tom, and Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings...
...Endikin and Reetchie" by Harvey Firari and "Cello Days at Dixon Place" by Michael Weller took an attentive and from a post-nuclear desert hell to the temporary break-up of an idyllic situation in the Village of three young men and the woman they idealistically share The one-act plays, both originals premiering at the Ex, are moderate successes, certainly up to what are now the fairly high standards...
...sharp, funny one-act play, written by Slawomir Mrozek and translated from Polish, Charlie deals with three characters and one problem. The characters are an oculist of rather flexible moral convictions (Paul Benedict), an old man with a loaded gun and bad vision (Edward Finnegan), and his solicitous, direct grandson (Richard Shepard). These last two are country people, and they see the problem as a simple one: Grandpa wishes to kill something named "Charlie"; he needs some glasses to recognize him. The doctor has difficulty understanding, though...