Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again, most of the blame can be deposited on the front lawn of director Frank B. Hanson. Tufts has an extremely unusual stage. The audience completely surrounds the stage area, sort of in the style of a diminished Yale Bowl. Further, there are very few rows of seats, so nowhere are you more than a few feet from the actors. As the large majority of modern plays are written for the proscenium stage, or the room with three walls, as someone once called it, there are distinct problems of staging at Tufts. One of the most obvious of these...
...theatre is of circular shape. It has a tilted, inflated, lens-shaped nylon roof 145 feet in diameter. The stage is flexible enough to accomodate either proscenium productions or three-quarters-arena shows. The seating capacity is approximately...
...Gibson's quiet humor and relaxed manner was enjoyable, but I felt that this young folksinger would be more effective in a night club than on the concert stage. The humorous, catchy folksong is Mr. Gibson's forte; he delighted his audience with "The Horse Named Bill," a nonsensical little number that has been a favorite on college campuses for generations. His recollections of Aspen and his own song "Super-skier" were delightful...
...weather provided an almost constant impediment, to say nothing of a couple of serious mishaps. Three days before the scheduled opening a downpour was still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon-cutting dedication of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. And a half hour...
...that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself, was not a man possessed by demons . . . He lacked the most necessary and awesome of demagogic gifts-a belief in the sacredness of his own mission...