Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things are getting pretty tough when a man can't even play a few days of golf without putting the entire Northeast in a furor. At least that's the way it must seem to Harvard football coach John Yovicsin, who just started off his Harvard coaching career with a bang by pulling a disappearing act for three days...
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac immediately took the world by greater storm than any other play in the history of the theatre. And today it still easily holds its position as the towering peak of 19th-century French drama...
...critics complain that it is not a "well-made play" a la Sardou--something it had no intention of being. Cyrano's unity is emotional, not academic. It presents an ideal attitude, tests it for three acts, and verifies it in the last act. The attitude here, as in Rostand's other works, is, as Rostand himself put it, "the need to preserve one's dream; to have eyes which, seeing the ugly, can see the beautiful all the same." Consequently, it is a play whose focus and mood is always rapidly changing, like a kaleidoscope...
...play is an idealized portrait of the real Cyrano, but is based on as careful research as any of Sir Walter Scott's historical novels. The 17th century is seen through 19th-century eyes, but the Baroque and Romantic eras had almost the same cultural spirit...
Victor N. Claman, who was the original producer for the Players' presentation of 'The Play's the Thing,' resigned Sunday, and Maurice Ford, aided by Sarah Edmond, have taken over the production. Claman said work on "The Gondoliers" forced his resignation...