Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right," said Nathan. "It takes everything the young people talk about--acceptance, giving, doing, you know everything, not just one cliche but a spirit. It's all of them. It's creative thoughtlessness...
Perhaps City Hall is deceptive. Perhaps behind those tall doors the same old politics goes on, the same old expediency and self-interest, the same old favors in return for patronage. But, one feels there might be a new spirit injected into the old game. After all, how many city halls have you been in which have their own art gallery...
Larry Thrunch (played by David Sonenberg, who studied acting in London before coming here) makes a delightful hero as he begins to regret selling his soul to the Spirit of Law (Ed Overtree, a Princeton Triangle alumnus) in order to be "Number One" and catch the affections of Mary Wealth (Gretchen Hackbarth, a B.U. drama major). Sonenberg and Overtree make a slick, professional pair as they battle competing students and then each other. Like the rest of the cast, they can sing, although everyone at times has difficulty being heard...
...tough demands of this unique theatrical experiment. "It's a family in a sense," commented Samshak, "Not that we all sit down and eat supper together, but there is a real communication between the actors. That's the greatest thing about the Atma." Frank McCarthy described the group spirit as "a very comfortable life...
...suitors. Against these semi-tableaux, there was a flurry of action provided by the counterpoint clowning of Ping, Pang and Pong. One of Merrill's finest productions, Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, was mounted as a fantasy; it captured the magic of the evil nurse, the semi-spirit world of the empress and the human world of the dyer...