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...bust as a general comedian rather than as a colorful colored man. He has worked out a funny routine on karate, and he seems to have all the drive and flair he needs, but his taste is still a bit green. He tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...
Even with the reservations mentioned above, The Italian Straw Hat as displayed by the Harvard Summer Players is good, if not memorable entertainment. In this respect it closely resembles the other productions of this disappointing summer season. With the exception of Man and Superman, all the plays presented have been of questionable value--works that are of interest more as historical relics than as meaningful or vibrant drama. The season's master-plan of "four great comedies" was far from realized; neither the actors nor the audiences were given enough good material to work with...
...heroes of melodrama: revenge, and erotic passion. Instead, Shaw transfers the skill in both to Cleopatra. Thus he is already playing around with his thesis that it is woman who pursues man, not the other way around--a theme he would later treat in full, notably in Man and Superman...
...Hell scene was not a success on opening night. The switch to philosophy was too abrupt, and the actors pounced clumsily on the occasional humorous lines, rather than slyly relishing them. The pages of exposition Shaw wrote on the natural attraction of the sexes and the dream of the superman, an unobtainable man of contemplation, a force without form, became just inanimate talk lacking much meaning. Don Juan receives only token opposition from his companions as he argues for the superman and rejects woman, and he rushes through his case without conviction and expression. At times it appeared that Kerr...
Everingham's Man and Superman has its problems; the talk does get tedious in spots. Still, Shaw remains remarkably funny and the Harvard players have enhanced his wit with a good, workmanlike production well worth seeing