Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett House Dramatic Society was forced to call off last night's performance of "Miss Julie" when actress Mikel Lambert '59 collapsed just before the play...
Although the plot still contains much intensity, the point behind it all, particularly for an American audience, retains mostly only an academic importance. Furthermore, the construction of the play--particularly near the end--sags alarmingly, and some of its long speeches are made up of a questionable kind of rhetoric...
...therefore, less surprising that the Leverett House presentation of Miss Julie fails in places than that the production succeeds as well as it does. While the show arouses no grand passions, it still stirs up some feelings--and that, given the play, is no mean accomplishment. The problem appears murkily, but it does appear...
...part of Julie is a large one--almost operatic in intensity at times. Mikel Lambert does not quite fulfill these moments, but during the quieter passages of the play she performs satisfactorily. In the last of the play's speaking parts, that of the maid Kristin, Danute Adomkaitis suffers somewhat from stiffness...
...director of Miss Julie, Richard Klinger, is sufficiently inventive in his staging, but he demonstrates some of the same faults as his colleague in the first part of the program. Notably, the pace he forces throughout is generally too fast, thus preventing the play from building up properly...