Word: titcomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think you owe the community an apology for the uncalled-for ruckus you have stirred up. You may be wise in Dogpatch, Mr. Capp; but your letter has shown that you are not at all wise in Massachusetts. Yours, CALDWELL TITCOMB...
...tasks which Messrs. Titcomb et al. have seen fit to assign me is the reviewing of second rate dramatic productions. I found that Fair Game, which opened and closed at the Boston Summer Playhouse last week, fell easily in this category...
...deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made out of old packing-crates. The folkish songs composed (or, sometimes, borrowed) by Caldwell Titcomb, and sung mostly by Johanna Linch, are also highly atmospheric. These are the familiar devices of Brecht's "Epic Theatre" staging, but it seems to me that in this production they are fused in a new way with the words of the play, to create an ambience none the less...
...Titcomb did not advocate professional direction as a general policy, either in or out of the new theatre. He was careful to say that non-student direction is desirable only "occasionally...
...great virtue of Harvard theater is the versatility and wide range which the present fluid situation makes possible. The reason for the vast number and variety of the productions Mr. Titcomb enumerates is the freedom from imposed standards of any sort which the Harvard director now enjoys. It is felt by many that the advent of concentration in drama together with strong faculty supervision in the new theater will result in the loss of this freedom. This is why the request for continued student autonomy in productions, so churlishly and peremptorily rejected by the Faculty Committee For The New Theatre...