Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except to actors in search of a role, most plays in book form are dull reading. Without props or actors to create illusion and vitality, they make an intolerable demand on the average reader's imagination. A Shakespeare becomes an exception through an excess of sheer creative power, a...
Perhaps the most important chapter in this book contains Smith's evaluation of Frederick Jackson Turner's hypothesis that the frontier, the point where civilization meets savagery, is the vital force in American history. Smith declares that the argarian emphasis of the theory, "has tended to divert attention from the...
Liebman accomplishes his production miracles by working with a veteran team, many of whom have followed him from summer theater to Broadway (The Straw Hat Revue, Tars and Spars, Make Mine Manhattan), "We're hep," he explains. "We simplify things by avoiding too many props and cutting down on...
White-haired, keen-eyed Sam Kennedy, Iowa's biggest onion and potato grower, last week finished a distasteful task. Across a 40-acre field on his farm near Clear Lake, Farmer Kennedy dumped 30 carloads of red and yellow globe onions. He put them there to rot. Like many...
Against the delicacy of the music and the action, the costumes and set are pretentious. The complexity of lighting and props, from which "Acis" was so happily free last year, provides mostly darkness and detours.