Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...
...curtain at Pi Eta opens on a starkly effective silhouette of Peter Prangnell's representation of the Trojan Gate of War, but Giradoux's Tiger at the Gates is not a play about Trojans or even about Giradoux's France and Germany: despite its setting it contains much drawing room comedy, while being concerned with the "stupidity of men and the elements." The HDC production manages to carry it all off with verve...
...When a play centers around the impotence of giants and their helplessness at the hands of destiny and trivial accident, the presence of some few gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing...
...large number of old men are convincingly portrayed. Despite the difficulty of such roles for students, the actors manage to play the parts with the necessary cracked voices, without monotony, while establishing a separate identity for each...
Lighting and music are movingly integrated into the production. While some of Walter Benson's lighting effects show the self-consciousness inherent in college drama, they always manage to accent the general action. In a period play with a large cast costumes are necessarily a problem. In Tiger at the Gates, the costumes though well-styled always appear merely costumes, rather than attire...