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...Senelick is giving some final advice to the cast. It is the next to last rehearsal. Pieces have gone well before, but the whole show had better start taking shape or they are all in trouble...
...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...
...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...
...other two plays seem to be less well written than Overruled. but they are both just as well acted. Both are new translations by Senelick (who 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...
Certainly Lawrence Senelick, who directed Flea in Her Ear and Women Beware Women, has his people, especially a dedicated and erudite stage manager, Dave Brownell...