Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
Fortunately, neither of the plays presented this season went bad for lack of acting ability. Ted Allegretti, John Lemmon, and others of the Harvard Dramatic Club have shown themselves capable of handling anything within the realm of reasonable histrionies. Mendy Weisgal, Marie Heath, and the company of the Veterans Theater Workshop displayed unusual talent in keeping a shoddy vehicle moving. Clearly, the faults that resulted in snarling press notices and red-scrawled ledgers lay in the choosing and not the acting of the productions...
...rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
Jacobean comedy will revisit, Cambridge this week when Radcliffe's Idler Club raises the curtain on its 1946-47 theater season. Directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolf Howe, the Garden Street actresses will present the first performances in 120 years of John Fietcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" on Thursday. Friday and Saturday eventings at Agassiz Hall...
Most spectacular of the proofs, from the student body's point of view, was the joint demonstration by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veterans Theater, who teamed up willy-nilly to illustrate the undeniable fact that there is now no available stage from which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity...