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Come you bed-pressers and plate-lickers, sophists, and cynics, come to the Loeb and see Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Feydeau has the world's number. Laurence Senelick, the director and translator, has Feydeau's number. Anyone who makes it to the theatre will roar his ribs...
...Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique program) breezes as Sir Foplin Flutter, looking like the Cowardly Lion, bantering in a voice that plummets and soars like Cyril Ritchard's. And with all clowning, he fools us into listening to every line he says. Mrs. Pitzele...
...Laurence Senelick, a section-man and graduate student in English, will direct The Flea in His Ear. The one undergraduate director now scheduled for a Spring slot on the mainstage is Daniel Freudenberger '67, who will do Sergeant Musgreve's Dance...
...fact there is only one outstandingly good performance from Lithgow's cast, and that is turned in by Laurence Senelick, who creates a Doctor, half Caligari, half Hackenbusch and all genius. I only hope he will work out better make-up and get to look less like an albino wolfman. Mary Moss makes a good Marie, and a very pretty one, but she swallows what should be her most moving lines--those addressed to an unforgiving...
...playing with Lithgow, most distinguished themselves. Laurence Senelick's Orgon never quite crystalized by himself; but he was hilarious as Tartuffe manipulated him. Elizabeth Cole's Elmire, competent with others, was delicious in the arms of the hypocrite. And even those who didn't speak to him, spoke more naturally in Tartuffe's scenes...