Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just five days before his injury, McVey starred against a tough Finland squad at Tampere, tallying two goals in a 5-3 U.S. triumph. Bill Clearly added one marker in a game featuring the "gentle" American style of play against the more rugged Finnish brand. Three days later, Bob Cleary scored once in a losing effort against a Czech team...
Style, style is the one thing needful for Earnest, and the Rep's actors can provide it only intermittently. In this most artificial of comedies the actors must look and sound as if they lived in the world of the play, not as if they were assuming certain mannerisms as they came out of the wings. They must give the impression that elaborate epigrams and elegant pseudo-nonsense are as natural to them as "Please pass the ketchup" and "Aw, go---yourself" are to us. Any gesture or inflection that seems as if it is there for its own sake...
Things begin to look up considerably in the second of the play's three acts, however, when a young lady named Frances West makes her appearance. Having broken her leg during a performance of Six Characters, she is currently appearing in a wheelchair, but her scenes have been smoothly reblocked to accommodate her. Her Cecily has the proper air of bland but strong-minded ingenuousness; her accent is perfect, and if her voice did not sometimes become unnecessarily shrill, she would be thoroughly splendid...
Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...Crimson settled down to control play, and when the period ended Harvard had made 19 shots to Yale's nine, and the score was tied at 2 to 2. Dave Crosby opened the varsity's scoring at 4:38, firing a backhander past Jones after taking a pass from Graney...