Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays presented at Yale, the characters may be little more than convenient figures from mythology--Greek, in the case of Princeton's Reflections, (by Wayne Lawson), or Christian, in Swarthmore's Walk the Circle (by Werner Honig). Sometimes, as in Mary Manning's fine adaptation of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which was staged by Mount Holyoke, the characters are not recognizable people...
Finnegans Wake and a little sketch by the French writer Tardieu called Trio, which Sarah Lawrence presented, serve as examples of another, if minor, branch on the experimental tree--they depended for much of their effect on playing with words. The difficulties and advantages of Joyce's style are familiar enough; the Tardieu play exploited not the possibilities of puns, but of the musical ecects which can be extracted from the sound of words with scant regard paid to their meaning...
Although in quality these plays ranged from the verbal and visual excellence of Finnegans Wake to the dull pomposity of the Princeton effort, they all have one thing in common: none of them are easily comprehensible. Whether the difficulty involved in unraveling these plays is worth the effort must, in the end, be left to the taste, or perhaps the curiosity, of each individual member of the audience...
...props as they could find in New Haven or bring along, and with no sets at all. It may be symptomatic of something or other that the most effective single prop used in any of the plays was a coffin which Mount Holyoke brought for its production of Finnegans Wake...
...wake of the record boom has come a spate of new calypso nightclubs, or old nightclubs in calypso dress, most of them in the East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added...