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What is so disastrous about the Theatre Company's production is its total insensitivity to the vital complexity of Eliot's work. In fact, David Wheeler has directed the play as if it were nothing more than a drawing-room comedy. His actors spoil the beautiful rhythm of their lines by deliberately stuttering and halting over them for a kind of dramatic effect. All the dramatic effect one can possibly ask for is right in the dialogue; one simply has to speak it naturally. As a result of this superficial treatment, much of the metaphor of the play goes unnoticed...
...Lost Angels. The Grove routine is pretty shapeless, although each year a couple of glittering original shows are staged beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned or prized guests make informal, off-the-record speeches in the glade. Herbert Hoover has spoken there, and so have Dwight Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller. Attorney General Robert Kennedy addressed the Grove alfresco a few weeks ago. It was Goldwater's turn last week...
...other opposition for Harvard was born in Laconia, New Hampshire last month. Jack Frailey, the M. I. T. crew coach who is guiding the Laconia experiment, took the best oarsmen from eight college crews and has assembled three "all star" boats with which he hopes to spoil the Olympic aspirations of Harvard and California...
...other recent incidents, Berkeley, Calif, demonstrators filled supermarket carts with food, then abandoned them in the store, left perishables to spoil. Militants in New York City threatened to waste water by leaving their faucets open. Negroes entered a segregated Atlanta restaurant, urinated on the floor, drew from former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield a stinging speech on the question: "Is Urination Nonviolent...
Only ingenious ineptitude could spoil a part in an unorthodox piece like In the Jungle of Cities. Careful interpretation counts for little when the dramatist delights in scorning conventional standards of behavior. There is no ideal way to deliver an ironic line like, "My mouth is not full of fancy talk--only teeth." Still, the Theatre Company of Boston deserves applause for carefully avoding all "fancy talk." They play In the Jungle of Cities as literal Brecht, vintage of 1924, complete with staccato speeches and as consistent tragi-comic flippancy that fits the dialogue perfectly. Among a dozen fine performances...