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...Robert Ginn, assistant director of the OGCP, said last night, "I personally called Hubbard Wednesday. I told him that no one had signed up and that I would call him if anyone came in before 5 p. m. Thursday. Otherwise he was not to come...
Students seldom make plans in the middle of the year to go into the service, Ginn said. "If a student is going to be drafted, he knows it in the fall," Ginn said...
...Harvard theatregoers remember at least one night when they stood outside the entrance door to a house production at 8:45 on opening night, waiting for a scared cast to finish its final dress rehearsal, five minutes prior to repeating it all in front of their first audience. Robert Ginn's ambitious, technically complex, production of Jean Genet's The Balcony never even made it through that all-important final run-through, and suffered consequently from an almost total absence of pacing on opening night (it ran approximately three and three-quarter hours). Undaunted, Ginn has over the week...
...Ginn's production employs more conventional mystiques, making simple and obvious reversals of sexual roles: Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the Madam of an answering service, a nervous dike devoid of femininity and consequent feminine insight. This is supported by the text often, particularly in the dialogue with Carmen, but it annihilates any credibility to her stated relationship with Georges, the chief of police. Genet's contradictions work better...
...Ginn has perhaps made a mistake in directing such a cold play in emotional high-style, emphasizing spectacle with aluminized mylar sheets mirroring the audience, incense burning-away, and bits and pieces of Artaud and Grand Guignol. The set, grotesque caryatids awesomely conceived and executed by Sebastian Melmoth, nonetheless serves little intrinsic function in Ginn's concept, appearing only as so much lavish decoration surrounding the playing area. The costumes and lighting, however, work better, and are superb as only the Loeb can make them...