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...one-act plays, by Harvey White and Deric Washburn, received an enthusiastic reception yesterday from a sizable mob of theatrical types and other mortals. Neither meaningless nor messianic, the two pieces display humor, occasional wit and much technical skill, and under the aegis of the Harvard Dramatic Club, they were well and speedily performed. Anyone who has a special interest in local dramatics should not fail to see them a repeat performance, today...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will present two "professional quality" one-act plays on major television stations sometime in early May, Joel F. Henning '61, president, said yesterday. WHDH-TV, Channel 5 in Boston, and WNHC-TV in New Haven will each carry one of the shows...
...that Anouilh's long one-act is everybody's show. It dramatizes what Shaw called "moral passion," where as most people are more interested in the other kind. The action is kept resolutely offstage, and we are treated instead to long analyses of situation and motive. But the argument is intense and beautifully conducted, and it is as irrelevant to call the play "talky" as it would be to call a drama of the heavy-breathing school "action-y." The production would be a credit to any Harvard organization; when a critic thinks of chucking it altogether and retreating into...
...grand'mère of telephone dramas, Jean Cocteau's one-act, one-character play The Human Voice (1930) returned last week in a fine musical version by French Composer Francis (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Poulenc. Staged in Milan's La Piccola Scala, with shimmering Soprano Denise Duval as the distraught mistress, Poulenc's opera lifted the play again to the lyric tragedy that Cocteau intended: "The worst tragedy that can happen to us all-love and abandon...
...second phase of its activities the group will present in February a program of three one-act farces, each using a different cast and director. The plays will be Maitre Pierre Pathelin by an anonymous 15th century author, Cervantes' Judge of the Divorce Court, and Prevert's The United Family...