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Last but not the least in the current flock of Harvard theatricals comes the North House's production of George Herman's A Company of Wayward Saints. The comedy is not great dramatic art, nor does it aspire to be. Shying away from the deliberately abstruse and intellectual, this North House company holds to the more modest yet honorable goal of pleasant entertainment. Its lack of pretense serves it well; the evening is filled with the uncontrolled laughter that such middle-level comedy dreams of achieving...
...expansion of the play within a play device, Wayward Saints concerns a trouble-prone Commedia dell'arte troupe which tries to stop quarrelling long enough to earn passage money home. The players, who have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second...
...Wayward Saints aims mostly for entertainment and then a bit beyond at a message. The play falls short of its more solemn ambition, but its comedy hits accurately for most of the evening. The show is good, not great, but a modest play well performed has its place in collegiate theater, and Wayward Saints is exactly that...
F.D.R.'s Martinis. Not so the other Henrys. The wife who would worry about getting her hair done on the day of Armageddon, a wayward daughter caught up in the sleazy radio industry in New York, two naval-officer sons, all are conventional appurtenances, without the emotional or dynastic depth to support a drama on the scale of World War II. What soon becomes clear, though, is that Winds of War is an upside-down Bildungsroman, in which the author, not the characters, keeps growing. Wouk's passionate interest in the war, his desire to evoke it, often...
North House--The King, the Grand Vizier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer oversee the year-old North House Drama Society. On the second weekend in December they will present a new play by George Herman. A Company of Wayward Saints in the Holmes Hall Living Room. "Our main problem," said the King, Paul Harrison, "is getting people to come up to Radcliffe for a play." But they also have to use flashlights for spotlights...