Word: rauch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Claiming ownership on one side are play wrights W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. They have left the other claimant, director Bill Rauch, with a verse play which popularizes Marxism in a social and political critique of pre-World War Two bourgeois Europe...
...just this proper feeling which director Rauch tries to evoke: the emotions and the characters of the people involved. But Rauch is given so little personal material of any depth or complexity in the text, that stellar acting is the only solution. With impressive consistency, the humorous touches thrown into this updated version keep the 1935 play entertaining. Brian McCue's series of comic scenes seem to emerge directly from Auden's own witty and slightly bizarre sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only...
...this play is of a strange sort there is still a wonderful collection of clowns. Pompey (Peter Ginna) is a gangly, very funny fellow, particularly when paired with the troglydite hangman David Van Taylor. Sam Samuels utter perfect obnoxiousness turns the foppish Lucio into a narcissistic climber. And Bill Rauch has a short but memorable cameo as the incompetent officer Elbow...
...ambitious students into the more manageable confines of the Loeb's versatile Experimental Theater, the ART's presence has provoked a true renaissance there. The spring season boasted mostly first-rate productions, and two in particular that rivalled the best I've seen, on the Mainstage or off--Bill Rauch's The Visit and David Edelstein's The Father...
BORN. To Joseph P. Kennedy II, 28, second of Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children, and his wife Sheila, 30, daughter of a Philadelphia banker: twin boys; in Boston. Names: Joseph Patrick III and Matthew Rauch...