Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long Islanders still shudder when the words LIRR and strike are mentioned in the same sentence. It's hard to imagine that this society of commuters would ever again endure the inconvenience of a transit strike. Suburban stock brokers and investment bankers might form a commuters' union and stage a counterstrike. I can imagine their slogans--"Commuters of the world unite! Break yours chains! Fight for your transit rights!" Conservative Yuppies would be transormed into radical revolutionaries...
Tomorrow night the Harvard Wind Ensemble takes the stage at Sanders Theater to feature the music of American composers Alek Wilder and John Harmon. Call 495-2000 for information...
Louisiana fiddler Dewey Balfa takes the stage at Paine Hall tomorrow night for an fun-filled evening of good Cajun music. Balfa is well-known throughout the South for his mastery of the art of the violin...
Another possible reason for the audience's discomfort may have been the theater space itself. The Kronauer Space, essentially a glorified basement space in Adams House, is not exactly what one would call a room with a view. The stage is set in one corner of the basement, and director Jackie Sloan makes no attempt to hide the humble surroundings. Decorated with rummage sale-like furniture, the set does not appear different from any of the other rooms in the Adams basement...
Space presents itself as another problem. There is just not enough of it. Intimacy is fine, but unfortunately, in the Kronauer production, the audience tends to feel as if it is too close to be comfortable. Though almost an arm's length from the actors on stage, one never feels as if these are the type of characters you'd like to embrace. If anything, one would tend to stay as far away as possible from these unfriendly hermits...