Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satirical revues have become a more and more popular theatrical genre during the last few years. They offer a versatile vehicle for all types of social and political commentary, and provide a good showcase for versatile new talent. The revue presented last weekend at the Experimental Theater of the Loeb Drama Center, "Pardon Me, I Was Here First!", makes good use of these potentialities...
...statistical information on a high frieze of light bulbs: 2,500,000 DEAD BY 1916. To say the least, this is unlikely material for live theater. But few walk out feeling that they have had less than a stunning theatrical experience. It is Joan Littlewood's particular talent to cull any number of miscellaneous disparities and improvise them into a dramatic force, as she proved when she turned 30 pages of brilliantly spattered fragments into Brendan Behan's The Hostage...
Less sparkling but still excellent is Philip Kerr, who uses his considerable talent to give the character of John Karslake, Cynthia's still hopeful exhusband, some color and depth. Paul Bristow is properly cold and mildly repulsive as Philip Phillimore, a judge who feels marriage should be contracted on rational, not emotional grounds, without any reference to love or similar nonsense...
...seems wasteful to have spent all this talent and energy on such a weak and tedius museum piece. This year's Summer Players have the capacity to produce some memorable drama. They, and their audience, deserve more significant and worth-while material...
Manager Ralph Houk, however, has proven himself as a resourceful commander. For the first time since assuming the Yankee leadership he has had to work with a deflicit of talent, and he has labored skillfully. He brought Jim Bouton out of the bullben and Bouton quickly became the Yank's (and the League's) hottest hurler. Al Downing, a young fastballer who had been unimpressive in two previous Major League trials, was summoned from Richmond and pitched a two-hitter in his first game. Harry Bright, a ne'er-do-well for several clubs, transformed into a 300 hitter when...