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...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club takes on nuclear physics this fall with student director Mike Donohue’s production of this Cold War comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. During a stay at a mental hospital three men who claim to be (and may in fact be) physicists Newton, Einstein, and Mobius, become involved in a web of murder, madness, and feigned identity—not to mention international espionage. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $12, $8 for students. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Loeb...
...million. This 50th-anniversary year will be different. In addition to two complete presentations of his two-year-old "Ring" cycle, he will offer a completely new Tosca and a new L'Africaine, as well as the American première of the Von Einem/Dürrenmatt The Visit of the Old Lady...
...other Albee plays, The Zoo Story and Everything in the Garden Arthur Miller is represented by The Price and The Crucible, Tennessee Williams by Kingdom on Earth, and Eugene O'Neill by A Moon for the Misbegotten. There was Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek...
...their native hardliners, Czech directors have repeatedly put on Western plays with themes of conscience and freedom. They have reached back for historical plays that echo themes of patriotism, power and treachery. The most arresting of these is King John, in the recent adaptation by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which turns Shakespeare's melodrama into a brutal and very moving confrontation of activist idealism with the chill realities. Suddenly, also, there is great theatrical interest in the Hussites. Several plays have been put on or are due next season about this Czech religious reform movement that was savagely suppressed...
Good Start. Gordon Davidson, the Taper's artistic director, plans to follow The Devils with two new dramatic works by U.S. Playwrights Romulus Linney and William Murray, and with Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi...