Word: aaron
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...Pirandello and the social satire of Wilde, Repertory Boston has added a competent adaptation of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory to its collection. The addition is a fine one: this stage version of one of the better recent novels stimulates thought, and receives, under Stephen Aaron's direction, a careful and well-paced performance...
...Huckleberry Finn.Caleb Trask, (Jimmy Dean) is really a good guy at heart, but there is no one around to tell him he is "no good" because his father has rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp" of the story is Aaron's girl...
Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden...
...manners--not a duplication but certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young man of the Wildean haut monde would never...
This last quality is supplied in abundance by Mr. Aaron, who handles the spookery with a deftness Houdini might not have scorned. He has a remarkable ability to keep the spectator's eye just where he wants it and his blocking is easy and effective. Both by blocking and by a contrast in acting styles, he keeps it clear that the Six Characters are part of a fundamentally different order of being than that of the troupe whose rehearsal they invade. The style he has found for the Characters is a shade overblown for my taste...