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...knows Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic stage as well as director Landau; and he has employed it and the rough settings of Robert O' Hearn with stunning resourcefulness. The big military scenes are especially well blocked, and in the climactic battle the soldiers thrillingly vault ten-foot bastions and make daredevil leaps. If Landau has invoked a number of melodramatic touches, it should be remembered that this is the most melodramatic of the tragedies...
...meeting, Rouben A. Brower, professor of English, responded to Finley's remarks by praising the proposal for giving freshmen an opportunity for sell-discipline...
What really keeps things going on Rouben Ter-Arutunian's spare, strikingly lighted stage are the classic public combats between honest legislators and honest, honest lagos; the immemorial private confabs between men with one card up their sleeve and men with two; a burly Ed Begley and a determined Richard Kiley resisting the Devil; Kevin McCarthy's rabble-rousing; and the fanged drawl and deadly swoops of Henry Jones's Southern Senator. Advise and Consent never once cuts below the surface, but it does often get behind the scenes...
...great many virtues. Fortunately, director Jack Landau seems to have gotten most of the nonsense out of his system in his Twelfth Night and has, for a change, approached Antony--given its cast--with a welcome sense of responsibility. Enormously aided by Tharon Musser's lighting, by Rouben Ter-Arutunian's basic but effective settings and stunning costumes (which range from a black-and-gold tent-like shroud in which Cleopatra commits suicide to the sketchiest of breechclouts worn by her Egyptian slaves), and by an extraordinarily precise crew of stagehands, Landau has achieved a visual treat that moves smoothly...
...versatile complex of latticed background panels, designed by Rouben Ter-Arutanian in 1956 and used for the dozen productions since, are gone this summer. Instead, Ter-Arutunian has encased the whole proscenium and stage within a surface of giant potato chips. This adequately serves the exotic Mediterranean Bermuda that Shakespeare specified for The Tempest; but it proves less fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added...