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...Spring issue of the Harvard Review, and on the same subject, he ably represented the forces of sanity at the panel discussion on drama held at Leverett House. Last weekend (and God knows where he and his cast found the time) Babe opened Strindberg's 1907 play The Pelican at the Loeb Experimental Theatre...
...Pelican is one of Strindberg's more harrowing achievements. Roughly, the story concerns the tragic changes in a family following the death of the father and the marriage of the daughter. The mother is in love with her newly acquired son-in-law, not realizing that he is interested only in the dead man's estate. These and other conflicts finally lead to a series of catastrophic confrontations in which the family, perhaps aided by the spirit of the dead father, turn against the mother and bring about the destruction of the entire household...
...Babe's Pelican, then, is both an excellent and a significant production, significant in that it comes close to being a perfect realization of one of the ideal uses of the Experimental Theatre. Taking full advantage of the surplus building supplies in the Loeb shop and the furniture in the prop rooms, The Pelican proves that a low-budget Ex show can look as professional on its own terms as a show on the mainstage...
...William Schroeder have built a small raised stage in the theatre, a rectangular room open to the audience on two sides. The Ex's seat-wagons are placed directly in front of the two open sides, so that the audience becomes in effect the two missing walls, and The Pelican thereby achieves intimacy and involves the audience. The conditions are close to ideal for Strindberg's "chamber play" (as in chamber music): the play was written for a theatre which seated 160, and the Ex seats about 120; the austere set even looks Swedish...
...were editing a film on stage. Never allowing the confines of the set to interfere with his blocking, he doesn't hesitate to have a character circle a table the long or illogical way, if it gives needed visual emphasis to that character. In doing this, Babe gives The Pelican its own stage reality...