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...cooperative housing as at Harvard. The Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, an independent student organiation, has 55 students living in three co-op houses. Unlike Harvard, the Brown co-ops are privately owned and both the room and the board are cheaper than living in regular dorms, says Elissa Sheridan, a junior and resident of one of the Brown co-ops. At Harvard, a co-op room costs the same as a room in one of the Houses, but the savings comes in the board...
...will present two productions in Los Angeles, a revival of Richard Brinkley Sheridan's the School for Scandal, directed by Jonathan Miller, and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author which will be directed by Andrei Serban, Scandal was the last presentation of the 1982-83 season, while Six Characters will be performed this...
...other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren and Jonathan Hyde. The National Theater, the slicker and more conventional of the rep houses, is presenting Sheridan's The Rivals, with sumptuous scenery by John Gunter, all of it devoured by a cast that includes Michael Hordern and Tim Curry. Also at the National: Eduardo de Filippo's Inner Voices, starring that foxy grandpa of British acting nobility, Sir Ralph Richardson...
...soap bubble that Miller vows will be his last is his current production of The School for Scandal at Harvard's American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sour 1777 comedy about the fragility of reputation provides an apt farewell for a man who complains of subjecting his most intimate labors to the casual scrutiny of others. Says Miller: "It is about the extent to which we exist only by being invented, torn down and reinvented by other people...
...clearly to be seen in 18th-century paintings--the way gentlemen stood with their toes turned out, the way people's hands--rested lightly on the bosom." Reportedly, he worked unusually long and hard with his troupe to supply the stances, the facial expressions, the ties that would keep Sheridan's rococo dialogue from flagging. The results are impressive...