Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SQUARE, Blue Velvet is nightly revealing the dark underside of small town life. Down in the basement of Mather, an even darker underside is being exhibited. Lunge, Grip is the nightmare play of every Harvard-Radcliffe student. It's the world of "incestuous" collegiate relationships brought to the stage. Though never stated explicitly in the play, Kaplan has clearly drawn upon the Harvard experience for this production...
...first 10 minutes, Freinkel's mainstage production leans toward innovation. The stage is divided: one side contains stylized broken marble pillars; while the other, raked half features a big brass bed, boulders, and a door on a checkerboard cube seemingly embedded in the Loeb floor. Presumably, the split is intended to illustrate the difference between Macbeth's public behavior in front of the pillars and his secret thoughts in his twisted bedroom. Both sides taken together, the stage looks like something Dali might have sketched on the back of a napkin...
...FORMS of literature, bad science fiction is perhaps the least easily adapted for the stage--a point painfully demonstrated in the Dunster House production of Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire...
Given the utter worthlessness of the script, it is admirable that the cast has the courage to remain on stage; in a production like this the goal is not to turn in a remarkable performance, but to avoid looking ridiculous. Fratto is successful in this respect, managing to stay in character during moments that are otherwise completely implausible. He is closest to redemption during audience-involvement scenes which come as close as anything in the show to real dramatic moments; it is telling, however, that Lantry's attempt to raise the audience from the dead comes to naught...
According to Wu Hung, Chinese art now is in a transitional stage. He says he feels it's important to encourage young artists, and he has arranged a series of displays of modern Chinese paintings in the Adams House common room in order to stimulate interest in the Asian art scene...