Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of a House Master, Mrs. Owen has become knowledgable with the concerns of the House. She knows about the problems of the Comstock-Winthrop merger, can tell you what Winthrop boys play on what teams, and has though up some answers to give Sophomores who ask about Sophomore slump...
...when Ghosts was first produced, Clement Scott, a noted London critic, called Henrik Ibsen's play "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publically..." But as performed by the Lowell House Drama Group, Ghosts is not nearly so shocking as it is dull, and eventually depressing. For when Ibsen's theme emerges through the verbiage and some discouragingly flabby acting, it retains a profound meaning...
...first two acts of the play--before the audience learns of Osvald Alving's disease--are like a drawing room comedy, only with little humor. Even if the cast were superb, all that could hold the audience's attention is the pomposity of Parson Manders' (spiritual advisor to Mrs. Alving) and his inability to contend with Osvald's defense of illicit marriage. At great length, the characters speak to each other seriously, but pointlessly, setting up the few magnificent scenes before the final curtain...
...pivotal figure in the play is, of course, Mrs. Alving, but as Anne Miner portrays her she is constrained almost to the point of inarticulateness. In the minor roles, Lisa Commager (the Alving's maid) is beautiful and occasionally quite good, while Laurence Jacobs often misinterprets the character of Jacob Engstrand, a Falstaffian carpenter...
...Wesley Zeigler's direction is often contrived. Most of his characters, when they deliver long speeches, pace up and down the stage, following practically the same pattern. And the play is considerably dulled by Ziegler's fascination with the fjords (which look very much like the Swiss Alps.) In the first act, an audience sitting out behind the set would hear almost as much of the important dialogue as the group in the Lowell Dining Room...