Word: senelick
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...Laurence Senelick, professor of Drams at Tufts, will read Shalom Aleichem's Chanukah Tales at the Sabbath Table Talk at 8:45 p.m., tonight, in the PBH Parlor...
...done nearly perfectly. Kathleen Perkins wanders about comically decrying life as illusion or delusion or perhaps just "mislaid." Deadpan Archie and Smith stops the show as a cabman--hired by Vandergelder to help separate Ambrose and Ermengarde, but sublimely unruffled by their antics. Best of all is Laurence Senelick as the experienced drunkard Malachi Stack. His monologue on the advisability of nurturing one vice and letting "your virtues spring up modestly around it" is itself worth the price of admission...
...Senelick's kind of expertise (echoed in varying degrees by the other actors), together with the excellence and complexity of the repertory's two other offerings, Moon for the Misbegotten and Heartbreak House, make an interesting Loeb summer season likely. Notwithstanding its flaws, even The Matchmaker is amusing...
...indictment of marriage it is not surprising if optimistic 20 year olds and pre-seven year itchers should find the first act over whelming. Always a popular target and one which has been riding particularly low in recent years, marriage doesn't really deserve such unrestrained vehemence. And Senelick is ruthless in his prosecution. Senelick has dealt with these love-hate relationships before. When fed up with what he considered the Loeb's non-theatrical organization, he founded "Harpo", the Harvard Producing Organization. Senelick choose for the inaugural performance "Married Alive"--a collection of three one-act farces on married...
Strindberg and Senelick seem to have their vendettas and perhaps blind justice has been waylaid...