Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
...neither of the plays presented this season went bad for lack of acting ability. Ted Allegretti, John Lemmon, and others of the Harvard Dramatic Club have shown themselves capable of handling anything within the realm of reasonable histrionies. Mendy Weisgal, Marie Heath, and the company of the Veterans Theater Workshop displayed unusual talent in keeping a shoddy vehicle moving. Clearly, the faults that resulted in snarling press notices and red-scrawled ledgers lay in the choosing and not the acting of the productions...
...problems of amateur theatricalism have never been demonstrated so effectively at Harvard in recent years as they were last night at the Rindge Technical High School auditorium. That Jerome Kilty and his budding Veterans Theater Workshop were able to rescue something from the tidal wave of difficulties which loomed over their opening venture was the most salutary observation to be gleaned from the world premiere of "I Was A King in Babylon...
...Veterans Theater Workshop, which is something of an offshoot of the Harvard Dramatic Club, seems to be a business-like, serious, non-collegiate type organization. Their plans for experimental production include, pending authorization, James Jeyee's "Exiles," and other works not commonly staged...
...King in Babylon," William Gerhardi's satire, and the newly formed Veterans' Theater Workshop will both have their world yremieres tomorrow night when the curtain goes up at the Rindge Technical School Auditorium. The play will run through Saturday...