Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directors, Rieffel and David Frutkoff, have chosen to stage the play conventionally, focusing on characterization and plot rather than experimenting with tricky special effects. They competently coached the actors, allowing for the demands of the clues--the need for a particular character to be in a particular place without looking suspicious...
...Little Indians the actors do a fairly good job. The somewhat colorless leads are adequately played by Ted Wiprud as Philip Lombard, the cynical adventurer, and Troy Segal, the flirtatious and sexy secretary, Vera Claythorne. Wiprud's role is admittedly somewhat stereotyped, and as he appropriately swaggers around the stage, flirting with the all-too-ready Vera, he gives the audience little more than a superficial performance of a one-dimensional character...
SEGAL FACES the same obstacles in her portrayal of Vera. She flirts and slithers very well around the stage, infusing the right amount of bitchiness into her essentially predatory character but is less effective at conveying fear. The result is occasional overacting, especially when mouthing words to herself in an attempt to display her growing hysteria...
Nevertheless, both Penn strengthened by rowers from their Eastern sprint champion freshman and J.V. crews and Washington will, in Parker's words, "be very difficult to catch at this stage...
...Crimson may indeed find the going tough in San Diego but past history and something about the way Parker said he expected difficulty from Penn and Washington "at this stage" of the season hints that by year's end it will be the other schools that are having the difficulty...