Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the Group 20 players' current offering at Wellesley, is a far cry from the usual light summer fare; it provides a gripping and cathartic evening of theatre. Although starting off innocently enough, the play soons builds into a searing and even excoriating medium...
...Tennessee Williams obviously did with Summer and Smoke. After the play failed, a re-examination led him to revise and expand it a bit; but the expansion into two acts, including a couple of important new scenes, adds only about ten minutes to the running time. The Wellesley company is giving the new version its public premiere. Both the play and the production are a marked improvement...
...Wellesley's Group 20 Players offered a fine foretaste of the high standards that we can expect during their regular summer schedule in their production of Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." This too was a good choice; it is not so much a play as a series of twelve vignettes, but it has already become a warm and humane American classic. It is great because it doesn...
...Group 20 Players at Wellesley's Theatre-on-the-Green have already begun their season, which will run into September and will feature such worth-while plays at Goethe's "Faust," Shakespere's "The Tempest," and revised version of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge...
InRing Round the Moon, which opened the Group 20 Players' fourth season at Wellesley last week, playwright Jean Anouilh and translator Christopher Fry are working with a regular chestnut of a dramatic medium. The plot concerns the attempt of a young bon vivant to amuse himself by smuggling a poor dancer into a society ball, so that she may embarrass all his snobby friends and at the same time cure his identical-twin brother of lovesickness. Among the several figures crouched behind the bushes--one can't help thinking--are Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, and whoever it was that wrote...