Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 giving to the audience...
...Theatre is shocking (nor is it at all like the Living Theatre, for that matter), but it is different from probably anything you have seen in a theatre before. From beginning to end, the actors run the show. They adjust the lights, they move the furniture, they control the play: they dance, they sing, they scream, they make animal noises...
...that lies a real problem. There is no getting around the fact that Chekhov wrote his play for Stanislavskian actors. The Three Sisters is (and this is a classi-fication, not a judgment) a "rich" play. While the 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...
...those games, evidently, was the Harvard contest at Cambridge. Leading 3-0 after only 23 minutes of play. Dartmouth collapsed badly. yielding four third-period goals before losing 6-3. It was a damaging psychological blow to a Green squad that had for two periods, thought it was finally going somewhere...
...Anderson and Mike Barle, an untested unit. will play at first defense, with veterans Denis O'Neil and Vince Orchard as a second tandem. Sophomore Dale Dunning. who played effectively in the nets for both Green triumphs. will start in the goal...