Word: ronder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate of the possible third play will depend on whether its director, Paul Ronder '62, can assemble a complete production staff by Friday of this week. The play Ronder hopes to organize is Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author...
...Paul Ronder, who directed, apparently believed that Ibsen hadn't put quite enough sex into Peer Gynt, so he added some. Early in the play, Peer is supposed to be picked up by three lascivious young ladies, all of whose desires he satisfies in the course of an evening. Ibsen leaves the actual act of intercourse to the imagination of the audience by having Peer and the vixens dance off stage together. Not so Ronder. Three young ladies, self-consciously displaying their breasts, crawled all over poor Peer, who lay at the front of the stage...
...would be absurd to talk about the play, one of Ibsen's greatest dramatic poems, since Ronder offered no interpretation of it at the Loeb. The mad scene was the only really effective one in the badly paced and chaotic production, and it is a pity that I must recommend that it be missed...