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...evening in the theatre with William Saroyan is likely to be a confusing experience. In most of his plays, the California writer laughingly throws away plot, character development, time, and even the idea that the footlight mark a rigid line which separates the actors from the audience. In the end, all that is left behind is Saroyan, glibly tossing out an idea and then circling around to laugh...
...takes some time, however, before the evening with Saroyan reaches its high point. The first play, a short sketch called The Beautiful People, is in many ways the least satisfactory of the three. Part of the fault is the author's--the scene is merely an aimless dialogue between a fifteen-year-old boy and an elderly woman who, for some unexplained reason, comes to the boy's house to see his father. The two discuss a wide and wild range of subjects, from mice than can spell to the boy's one-word novel, Tree. Saroyan here probably tried...
...last of the plays, Hello Out There, is also the clearest and most disciplined of the three. Saroyan this time managed to say something perceptive about loneliness by means of the story of a man unjustly jailed for rape, and he does it without resorting to tricks or metaphysics. Tony Winsor, the accused, and Margaret S. Groome, a shy girl who falls in love with him, are quite satisfactory in their roles. They might be even better, however, if they could suppress a tendency to shout. An additional and unnecessary note of wildness is added by the direction if Michael...
Meanwhile, the Houses are in the process of casting for the current Christmas plays. While Eliot and Dunster are both producing the "Second Shepherd's Play." Lowell will put on "Knight of the Burning Pestle," Adams will present "Alcestis," by Euripides, Leverett "An Evening With Saroyan," and Winthrop "The Birth of the Beautiful Typewriter Girl...
...Omnibus got off to an interesting start with Author William Saroyan's recollection of his California boyhood and was memorable for the sharply played vignettes of adolescence by Actors Sal Mineo and Pat De Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what...