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Edward Zwick has made the rather barren script, by Joel Schwartz '66, into an excellent point of departure for his ensemble of actors. The cast, combining fluidity and grace with a concern for moral issues, adopt different characters and moves from joyous court scenes to moribund battles with remarkable ease. Bernard Holmberg extends his domain over the entire audience with his powerful portrayals of both the again Kings Saul and David. He carefully constructs the painful tension of a forsaken leader, and confidently bursts into song and dance. In the final scene, his change from proud endurance to senility...
This goes right back to its origins. The writer, Joel Schwartz '66, who flew in from L.A. this week to advise this East Coast premiere, has a story about that. The rich and varied life of the Biblical David had always intrigued him, and when Schwartz was at the University of Minnesota as playwright-in-residence the idea took form: "We were sitting around when a friend of mine who was acid-tripping went into a wild impersonation of John Witchboy, the character in Richardson and Berney's Dark of the Moon. Like David, he was the sort of intense...
...crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal. Schwartz, who says that his play works best when least Biblical in tone, is pleased with this...
...prison's 1,200 inmates may not be all that happy about the warden's action on their behalf. Law Professor Herman Schwartz of the State University of New York (at Buffalo), who was a key legal adviser to inmates during and after the Attica riots, opposes such experiments because he believes the convicts are generally "too beaten down to give meaningful consent." But he also admits that "some of the prisoners do want it." And not only for the money involved, or for a possible break from parole boards. A major attraction in many cases, says Schwartz...
Soviet adherence to the copyright convention will also establish official control over Western publication of works that appear in Russia. Such works were previously in the public domain, and Western houses felt free to print what they chose. Says U.S. Copyright Lawyer Alan U. Schwartz: "The Soviets may now presume to play on the commercial greed of our publishers by offering special deals. We must be very careful to prevent the Soviets from using their copyright to suppress some of the finest works of Russian literature...