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...Harpo" is the child of Lawrence Senelick and his frustrations with the Loeb Drama Center. Fed up with what he considers the Loeb's non-theatrical organization, he organized "Harpo" as an ensemble theatre company independent of just about everyone except its audience. If the group is successful, Senclick hopes to run a repertory schedule this summer. and continue through the next year in a permanent theatre...
...first production, Senclick has chosen George Bernard Shaw's Overruled Georges Feydean's Madame's Latte Lamented Mother. and Chekhov's The Wedding. Each takes a part of the chaos of a man and woman living together, and satirizes it with a turn of century sense of opulent depression...
...acting is very very British and very good John Pum conveys the right sense of disaster with long speeches which try to "sort out what's happening" and are logically and grammatically correct, if wholly incomprehensible. The other three-Marilyn Pitzele, Sally Fisher, and Senclick-also do beautifully with rather difficult dialogue. Senelick and Miss Fisher are so Victorian they are a little bit scary...
...appears to be hopelessly multi-talented-and are "modern" in the same way that Dudley Fitts translations of Aristophanes are modern (And I was always a little bit repulsed by hearing a character in The Birds saying. "Gadzooks," but that could just be my hangup.) In any event, Senclick has translated both so that they come out a little like satires on contemporary Jewish marriage...