Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Virginia's lively Hollins College boasts one of the country's key teaching machine projects (and a rare statistics major for women). At Iowa's Easterner-beckoning Simpson College, all students take in a new "Vital Center" curriculum designed to ask questions and pose answers about Western and Oriental civilization. Ohio's strong little Hiram College, which sends 80% of its students to graduate schools, gives a student only three courses at a time, to encourage more intensive study. At Florida's Stetson University near Daytona Beach, where students can get learned and burned...
...Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven't been in Spain for years," says Lady Warminster. "I liked the women better than the men. Of course they all have, English nannies.") Depression...
...Simpson who has advanced the proposition (in his One-Way Pendulum, not yet produced in this country) that if one weighing machine can speak your weight, five hundred weighing machines can sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Weighing machines that speak your weight are a phase of the twentieth-century American revolution that has not yet reached America, but the perfection of Simpson's repsonse to them, the carrying of lunacy to its amusingly disquieting end, elicited admiration and aroused high expectations for the two plays to be presented by Club 47 as its first production of the summer season...
...Hole, in its American premiere fully satisfies all the hopes that theatre news from Britain has excited in followers of avant-grade drama. It is one of those plays about which people disagree, disagree even as to what it is about. I would suggest that perhaps Simpson intends to supplement the venerable Bede, Trevelyan, Thornton Wilder, and The Times, as historian of Church, England, mankind, and the times. Early in the play (and in a manner reminiscent of some of Our Town's devices) he calls our attention to the large meaning he wants his play to have...
...yourself play, in which form and meaning are not obvious in the script. Such a play requires exceedingly skillful direction and acting if it is to appear coherent enough and meaningful enough for the spectator to want to puzzle about it and pour his own interpretation into the container Simpson has provided. (And it is a moderately flexible receptacle, although there are limits to how far the elastic will stretch.) On the basis of last night's dress rehearsal, the production appears fully to meet the demands of the script. Stephen Aaron has directed it splendidly, creating suspense where appropriate...