Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the season when gift books abound in the land-all expensive, all flossy, some gimmicky, some good. Among the good: The Discovery of the World, by Albert Bettex, a handsome history of exploration; The Lithographs of Chagall, with 237 fine reproductions; Hummingbirds, by Crawford H. Greenewalt, with superb photos and readable monographs by, of all people, the president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For givers under no compulsion to bedazzle, there are also plain books. Among the best recent ones...
Some Yale students up for The Game pronounced the name of the new theatre "Low-Ebb," but Yalies have no room to talk. At Yale there is only one undergraduate are producing organization, the Dreamt. There are no "outside" shows. The result is often productions technically superb and dramatically bland. Harvard drama in the past has successfully avoided this monolithic structure with its resulting inflexibility. Worthwhile productions have been staged in unlikely places through the intense efforts of a handful of interested students...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, these superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams...
...atribute this in part to its superb settings and photography, that deepen its mood of terror and melodrama. Bergman's regular designer, P.A. Lundgren, has placed a surrealistic sequence near the film's end, in a claustrophobic attic stacked with canvasses, sculptures, and decayed bits of ornate furniture--an achievement that would have pleased the young de Chirico...
...than for his plays themselves, his plays, with the exception of The Threepenny Opera, are too rarely produced. We prefer arguing about Communism, the didactic theater, the epic theater, the A-effect, and the V-effect (alienation or Verfremdungseffekt, depending upon your degree of snobbery). As John Hancock's superb production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle demonstrated, Brecht was too much an artist to be seduced by his own theories. The stage of the Loeb Drama Center was from more than an animated lecture platform. (The program calls it the Loeb Dramatic Drama Center, and I will allow that this...