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Beckett is more than lucky in this revival at off-Broadway's Public Theater; he is blessed. Entrusting a play to Irene Worth is like investing in the Krugerrand. She is pure gold. Voskovec, in what amounts to a crawl-on part, is admirable. As for Andrei Serban, the ebullient Rumanian-born director-improvisationist, he has had the incredible tact not to tamper with the text. For which relief, much thanks...
During director Anrei Serban's recent lecture at the Loeb Drama Center--a lecture composed of a series of questions and answers--Vlada Petric directs a questions to Loeb Producing Director George Hamlin: "Since you belong to this institution, do you plan to hire Mr. Serban to change a little bit of the theater we see here, which I find very conventional, boring and stale?" People gasp, some applaud, some laugh. During a reception afterwards, Petric tells me, "Two elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says...
...human voice carries secret possibilities of transmitting vibrations, energies," Serban said. He cited the original language of Greek tragedies as "reverberating in us, and carrying within those sounds the universal human emotions which go beyond cultural or geographical differences...
...Serban added he works carefully with actors to help them develop highly expressive sounds. When asked how he did this, he replied, "It's a secret...
...Serban's Yale Repertory production of Scagnarelle: An Evening of Moliere Farces, will play at the Loeb from May 25 through...