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Having seen well over forty of the works presented, the undersigned can personally attest to the extraordinary vigor and vitality of the present season. The prime value of this activity is the enjoyment and the "learning through doing" that the participants derive; the quality of the result and the size of the audience are properly secondary considerations. Still, this has not been a year of quantity alone. Happily, some of the productions have equaled the high level of excellence that characterized the efforts of the Veterans Theatre Workshop here in the late...
...need to go so deep into unconscious symbolism as the Freudians, who see the cigarette as a nipple substitute. Its psychologists found just what was needed at the preconscious level: "Americans smoke to prove they are people of virile maturity. They see smoking as proving their vigor, potency." This, explained Social Research, "is a psychological satisfaction sufficient to overcome health fears, to withstand moral censure, ridicule, or even the paradoxical weakness of 'enslavement to habit.' " Youngsters who smoke are trying to be older, the MR men concluded, and older people who do so are trying to be younger...
...Caine Mutiny Court Martial isn't a bad play as commercial drama goes. Herman Wouk's study of the decay of a loyal petty tyrant, concluding with an elegy for devoted though unenlightened service has considerable vigor. Adapted from the novel, the script assumes much of the background of the novel, and as script leaves something to be desired in development of the characters...
...Dreamer in white alabaster, a dark and moving image of Naomi and Ruth in lithium stone, a deeply sensual, semi-abstract Reflection in pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers; each in its own way celebrated Sculptor Gross's feeling for the beauty and joy of the human body...
Over-acting seems to be idiom of Leverett House theater. Although the relatively inexperienced director and actors work on three awkward bits of O'Neill with commendable vigor and theatrical awareness, their triple-barreled evening of drama is alive only slightly more often than it is awkward...