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Into this prison, guards throw Nicolal Rubashov, a leader of the revolution now accused of counter-revolutionary activity. Rubashov believed the dream, and he still does. David Bowen shows us a Rubashov whose downfall lies in his insistence-on thinking things out to the end. At first he is perhaps a little too reticent in showing Rubashov's strength, but, as the play builds to a climax, Bowen's characterization becomes completely convincing and powerful. At the end, his Rubashov is a man of real dignity and stature...
DAVID J. BOWEN '51, as Rubashov, whispers to Prisoner 402, acted by CHARLES C. HUMPSTONE '53, in a scene from "Darkness at Noon." The Harvard Theatre Group production opens tonight in Sanders Theatre for a run ending on Saturday...
Bowen will play the lead as Rubashov, a now useless revolutionary, while Gershung is cast as his inquisitor, Gletkin. The production will be directed by Charles C. Humpstone '53, who will also play a supporting role...
...theater, and not simply to inflame the emotions; to ask whether absolutist ideas can exist without absolutist methods, whether life which systematically ignores the human factor can preserve a human form. As a play, Darkness at Noon manages, by means of flashbacks and a divided stage, to convey Rubashov's relations with various party members and inquisitors. What is chiefly lost in the theater is Rubashov's relations with himself. The story also slumps here & there, and the love elementthough politically pertinentoften has a familiar, rather bourgeois look...
...extremely long role of Rubashov, Claude Rains gives a brilliant performance, nicely counterpointed by Walter J. Palance's chilling Gletkin...