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Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with considerable competence, they cannot endow it with a point of view. Nor can they become classical actors by working hard and willing...
...enthusiastic audience of University officials, visiting dignitaries, and men prominent in theatre attended a private opening performance of "Troilus and Cressida," first production in the new $2 million Loeb Drama Center. The show officially opens a one-week schedule tonight...
Members of the audience agreed heartily with a line spoken by Ulysses: "The present eye praises the present object." At a reception after the performance, professors and members of the Administration lauded the acting and staging of "Troilus," and the architecture of the Drama Center...
...Troilus and Cressida" may never have been performed in the Globe. Its first performance at the Loeb, however, seemd to augur well for College dramatics...
Harry Levin provides some lively notes on the drama of "Troilus aid Cressida"--one of the bard's lesser-known works, chosen as the first production. (Page...