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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production preliminaries for the VTW presentation of the play, scheduled for early December in Sanders Theatre, will begin sometime next week. There are still plenty of parts available as well as openings in the technical assistant department, Weisgal announced...
Take one rather windy, over-long play that has plenty of Ideas, sit on it, heavily to press out the depth, cut it to a sensible length, then polish so it glistens, and you have the current product at the Shubert. The process transforms a dramatic treatise in philosophy into a funny but two-dimensional play, perhaps the best that can be done with. "Man and Superman," which is, after all, something to be read rather than seen. Shaw's rebellious witticisms are served up in the elegant, stylized manner that Gielgud brought to perfection in "The Importance of Being...
...play that is just two hours long should not attempt to do too much, and this one tries unsuccessfully to combine serious thinking about the problems of a modern, liberal scientist with a pixie-like humor derived from having a character play the scientist's mind. Raymond Massey, as the former, reads the New Republic and for three acts carefully compares the validity of his duties to his family and to the world. Meanwhile an assortment of bad and middling actors walk in and out, dramatizing the arguments each way. This sort of thing begins to be terribly tedious toward...
...play has good dialogue, and may have some slight success on Broadway, with some of the actors removed and a good deal of polishing. Everett Sloane, as the mind, does a lot with a ridiculous role, and Massey is his imperturbable self...
...game room on the second floor is ready to accommodate the students who want to play bridge, Monopoly, poker, or whist in French or any other language...