Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...
...list of praises must come a word for John Holabird, whose transformation of the evils of Sanders Theater into good should set a target for succeeding generations to aim at from a distance. The use of the memorial Hall transept for the Reims coronation scene was a master stroke of a designer's imagination: with the audience seated in the long hall it became a cathedral even to the acoustics. And that was not the limit of Holabird's invention. His division of the stage into three separate units for the opening scenes would alone have made the staging...
...inevitable comparison arises between "Saint Joan" and the Dramatic Club's recent success. What puts last night's production out ahead essentially is the play--the challenge it posed to the Theater Workshop and the way that challenge was met. The Odets was done exceedingly well, but even at its best it offered nowhere near the range of expression in either acting or staging that belongs to Shaw's creation. From every conceivable standpoint "Saint Joan" is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics. If you let it slip by without seeing it, you are depriving yourself of a rare...
Starring Donna Holabird in the title role, George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" will open tonight at 8:40 o'clock in Sanders Theater under the aegis of the Veterans' Theater Workshop...
...hoped that enough of the Villagers will turn out to make further presentations by University groups possible. The size of Monday's audience will be the determining factor, said Hunt, expressing the hope that residents will show their interest by attending the first production at their theater...