Word: summer
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STRATFORD, Conn.--When the American Shakespeare Theatre opened here in 1955, it offered productions of Julius Caesar and The Tempest. Whether by coincidence or design, the current season consists of the same brace of plays, augmented by a revival of last summer's staging of Twelfth Night...
...this weekend's press opening, Kenneth Haigh's Prospero seemed imbued with a weariness that I don't think either he or the director intended. Haigh's load this summer is enough to tire anyone: when he is not doing Prospero, he is playing either Brutus (an even longer role) or Malvolio. At any rate, his Prospero is not yet a sustained piece of work...
...This summer we have a young man, Ray Dooley, clad in a silver body-stocking with ligamental cords running from arms to torso. Dooley moves with admirable lightness, assisted by John Morris' delicate flutes, harp and chimes. His speech, however, is erratic; and his discourse (in a harpy's disguise) to the villainous nobles is an almost total loss. In "Come unto these yellow sands," "Full fathom five," and "Where the bee sucks" Ariel has three of Shakespeare's loveliest lyrics; but Morris' supporting vocalists cannot hide the fact that Dooley is simply no singer. The yardstick for the role...
Many states have long tried to accommodate the odd schedule by operating a patchwork of migrant programs. But the Palmyra school and 21 others scattered throughout the Midwest are run by the Texas Migrant Council (TMC), based in Laredo, Texas, which each summer sends teachers north to staff its preschool network, using funds from a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Head Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could...
...where they are fed breakfast. Those who need it are given a bath, then the teachers read stories and teach them songs. "We make home visits and try to build a relationship with the parents," says Head Start's Juan Cortes, an ex-migrant who spent his first summer in the fields at the age of four. Still, Cortes acknowledges, few parents visit their children's class, except on rainy days when they cannot work...