Word: amfitheatrof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth New Theatre Workship production, In the Lion's Mouth by Erik Amfitheatrof, is full of sound and fury, signifying little that has not already been well explored. But it is, for all its excess philosophy, an exciting play. In fact, its main fault lies in the effort Mr. Amfitheatrof has made to achieve excitement. His characters indulge in a good deal too much swearing and beating upon one another--both gems of stock dramaturgy that are below the author's general high plane of plot construction...
Good theatre need not be didactic. Well done cavalry charges are superior even esthetically--to sophomoric preaching; but Mr. Amfitheatrof's work leans too often on loud voices and poised fists for its dramatic effect. With the innate tension of his story a sympathetic Italian police commissioner rescuing a defected Communist from the Yugoslavs and from the fascist ire of the commissioner's son's political chief--the author need not have stressed action so much...
...Lion's Mouth, I should repeat, was exciting and generally enjoyable. The very fact of an all-student production on a regular New Theatre Workshop schedule is a very pleasant sign for Harvard drama. Bringing this season of locally written plays to an end, the HDC production of Mr. Amfitheatrof's work promises much for next year...
From sailboats the Advocate shifts to speedways with Erik Amfitheatrof's "The Day of Giants." Expect for a few reflective paragraphs which seem superfluous and some strained metaphors like "The flat, heavy sunlight squirmed inside his head," the writing is fast-moving and clear. The author is stronger near the end where he flavors the story with much of the vigour of a motor marathon...
...Eliot, nosed out Dunster's Ken Culbert yesterday afternoon to win the House novice singles championship. Bill Cini of Winthrop placed third. Mike Halberstam of Dunster won the comp race, beating George Walcott of Eliot. Another Dunster man, Dirck Post, won the House wherry race, with Lowell's Erik Amfitheatrof second...