Word: sacha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1922-1922
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After several weeks of rehearsals, the Dramatic Club has chosen its cast for the coming production of Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" which will be given at Brattle Hall on the evenings of Monday, May 8, and Thursday, May 11, and at the Copley Theatre the afternoon...
Nothing is more astonishing than the Dramatic Club's choice, nothing more painfully astonishing. Heaven knows why Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" has been chosen. Why!!! There is nothing, in that miserable piece of literature, absolutely nothing but a perfectly--uninteresting succession of hastily drawn sketches...
Talleyrand, one of the heroes of the play, is unreal and devoid of spirit. He is a badly dressed mannequin. Talleyrand is too complicated a character to be presented on the stage and Sacha Guitry makes him everything but what he was. The other characters are not any better...
...Beranger" shall be played here. The actors will be applauded for they will be very good, but, GRAND DIEU, Sacha, how do you get away with it? HENRI DE CASTELLANE...
...presenting Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" as its twenty-third production, on May 8 and 11 in Cambridge, and at a Boston matinee on May 10, the Dramatic Club offers a play that is of unusual interest from many points of view. Opening in the courtyard of a little inn just outside of Paris, in the Spring of the year 1813, the action of the first act traces the phenomenal rise to popularity of the famous French song-writer, Beranger, through the immediate nation-wide singing of his songs; his meeting with Desangiers and the attention and honor bestowed upon...