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Continuing their ingenious methods of staging which produced the transept of Rheims Cathedral for "St. Joan," the VTW is planning to create in the Sanders Theatre a replica of the Elizabethan stage. For this purpose the present pit seats will be removed and the stage extended...
...fallen in the Union cause, they started a controversy similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles." And the marble tablets that cover the walls may still be read "amid the gorgeous emblazonry"--with a flashlight...
...been relatively quiet on the Mem Hall scene since then. Most recent renovation has been the transformation of its basement into ultra-modern psychology and psycho-acoustic laboratories. Walking through the medieval transept and then down into the futuristic halls of science beneath is as startling as being transported from the Dark Ages into the World of Tomorrow. At last the Renaissance seems to have overtaken Memorial Hall...
...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...
Memorial Hall's huge transept will be transformed into the interior of Reims Cathedral to highlight the production by the Vets' Theatre Workshop of "St. Joan," opening this Wednesday...