Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organ recital by William Sprigg, organist and assistant professor of music at Hood College, Maryland, will conclude the summer school music series on Thursday August 15th. Sprigg will play works by Hindemith, Messiaen and Vaughan-Williams and will also perform his own composition, Sonata number 1. The concert, which will be held in the Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m., is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
Simplicity predominates? the stage stands black and bare, properties have been minimized, and the scenes presented involve a minimum of physical action. The resulting emphasis on sheer ability to read poetry well suits the group's talents. But even in the final bit, the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream, entailing a certain amount of slapstick, the players do a fine...
...Juliet in the Balcony Scene (which opens the evening) Miss Tettlebach displayed a warm, lovely voice perfectly suiting the part. And her reading was superb? she even appeared at times to let the poetry play her; and the listener was not aware of anything standing between him and Shakespeare...
...This new play enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway this spring; and fortunately it has come to Boston for two weeks? Let me say at once that The Potting Shed is a truly distinguished work--amazingly so for a second attempt. As a matter of fact it was by far the finest new foreign play of the past season--despite the temporary corporate insanity of the New York Drama Critics Circle, which gave the nod to a bit of French froth. And it is Greene's best accomplishment since his novel The Heart of the Matter of a decade...
...Potting Shed has been billed as a "suspense drama" and a "mystery thriller." Both terms are quite accurate. But the play is not a whodunit; it is rather a whatdidhe. It concerns James Callifer, who, good newspaperman that he is, tries to ferret out the story of what happened in the potting shed 30 years ago--something so traumatic that it blanked out all memories of his pre-adolescence and caused both him and his uncle to be shunned by the rest of his family...