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Still within the realm of comedy, let's move across the Channel, move up a hundred years, and move over to Winthrop House, to a joint Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players and Winthrop Drama Society Production--or rather, productions. This attraction is a double bill. One of the shows has not been presented here since 1875. It's an opera called Cox and Box, written by Arthur Sullivan in his pre-Gilbert Days. However, the opera in a sense led to the team's establishment. W.S. Gilbert, a critic for "Punch" magazine, wrote a nasty review of the show. He loved...
...seem to escape these British two-man works this weekend-Dumbwaiter pre-dates the playwright's well-known "Homecoming," and might be interesting for those who'd like to see early Pinter, as well as those who want to sit on their seat's edge. The show plays tonight and tomorrow night at 11:00 in the Cabaret, located in the Adams House D entry basement. Like all the Explosive B shows, Dumbwaiter is free...
Junior Common Rooms will be jumping with music this week and next. In addition to the aforementioned Cox and Box, two original musical revues premiere at Kirkland and Lowell Houses. The Kirkland show, called Four Play, plays May 12, 13, 14, with two shows on the 12th and 13th. The musical is about college theatre, appropriately enough. Lowell's revue, entitled Riches, is a bit wider in scope; it presents several ballads dealing with young women and the coming-of-age process. Performances are this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with two Saturday show. Riches is free; tickets for Four Play...
...Stuart Davis show at the Fogg bills itself as a study of art and the theory behind art, and Davis certainly is an artist whose theory must be studied along with his painting. The concept of a show that sets out to tackle theory is intriguing and could conceivably win over a few modern art skeptics who only want to be told why the art world thinks the work of this artist deserves to be called...
Unfortunately, the Fogg show indicates that eager students of theory can not be satisfied by the Fogg show without the aid of the show's catalogue or a Faculty member from the Fine Arts department. Perhaps theory can only be explained in books and classrooms, but if this is true, it is hard to see how art like Davis's, which is built on careful study of color and space and interrelationships between the two, can ever win a popular following. People who do not have the time and expertise to wade through lenthy and obscure explanations of theory will...