Word: lightheartedness
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The Yale Undergraduate Drama Festival held in New Haven at the beginning of spring vacation was slightly misnamed. Except for a couple of isolated moments, the gathering of some three hundred representatives from nineteen Eastern colleges lacked anything resembling a festive air. Instead, an atmosphere of rather grim determination surrounded...
The impact of the tragedy was diverted by the comedy that followed. In Six Strings Cut, author Wally Lawrence shows skill and a lighthearted touch, the delightfully amusing production owes much to Thomas Teal's alert direction; his comic inventiveness shows great promise. Lee Jeffries and Jim Stinson worked wonderfully...
THE AFTER DINNER OPERA COMPANY is the freshest of half a dozen small opera groups and workshops (including the lighthearted Punch Opera, the experimental Opera '57 and the ambitious Amato Opera Theater, which changes its standard opera bill every three weeks). The company-headed by Stage Director Richard Flusser...
The situations are seldom better than the lines, being funny mainly when the action is slapstick--a plant suddenly sprouting in joyful abundance all over the stage is the most bearable example. But the author occasionally leaps out of his verbal rut to pierce a pet political balloon very neatly...
How to Win. Except for a lighthearted excursion into the Gillette Co. (where he invented a one-piece razor and the "Blue Blade" and paid off $20 million of the company's debts), Lambert has kept busy away from industry. He has learned to paint, to play politics (for...