Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which had chosen to wear...
Even if it could be compared to other recent productions, comparatives would not be enough to praise the Harvard Classical Players' production of "Miles Gloriosus" (The Braggart Warrior) which opened last night at Agassiz Theater, and which, unfortunately, closes this evening after only a two-day run. No, superlatives are in order for the local classicists, both for reviving the production of Roman drama after a hiatus of 13 years and for presenting a sparkling production of Plautus' rollicking comedy...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
...problem facing the college critic of the Theater Workshop's productions of the last three years has been two-fold. First, he must search each time for new superlatives (for each show has been better than the last, thought the plays have not all been equal) and he must restrain himself in order to retain the reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied...
...Tempest" is probably Shakespeare's last play and it is certainly the last production by the Theater Workshop. The HTW has amply paid its debt to Shakespeare with this presentation. There's a spell of white-magic over Brattle Hall this week...