Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...
...upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
Elaborate production of the scene at the court of the Dauphin will include velour curtains suspended from a cantilever structure in the student balcony over the stage to render an effect of height and richness. A large throne has also been put together for the Dauphin's court...
...handling of the climatic trial scene will again make use of the platforms, on which the court officials and prosecutors will be seated. Joan, the defendant, will be stationed low on the stage, to give the impression of nearness to the audience...
John Holabird '42 2GSD, veteran of eight years of Harvard dramatics, is head man of the production crew. Helping to make it a family affair, Mrs. Holabird will play the title role while Chris Holabird '48, John's brother, will help on the stage crew...