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...necessarily condemn the idea of an Olympian troupe in the Loeb disguised as students. But its implications should be faced. George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop attracted special students of magnificent promise--Eugene O'Neill, for instance. But Baker was teaching playwriting, a more appropriate subject for a liberal arts college. If profesional acting teachers are brought in on a temporary basis and special students comprise the essential core of the course, why offer it to Harvard College? If such a group were to stage only one play a year, the value of the College qua audience is hardly worth...
...applied to acting, an increased demand like that which already is enlarging the technical staff can be expected to arise. Historically Harvard theater has seemed most professional when in fact it was so. For example, many of the Harvard undergraduates involved in the excellent productions of the Veterans Theater Workshop, HDC and Brattle Theater group after the Second World War had acquired theatrical experience and maturity before they arrived in Cambridge...
Attempting to furnish non-professional, and not-very-time-consuming theater, the drama workshop cannot polish a play as Pinter's requires. It chose to present this work as a "reading-in-motion"; the actors carried scripts to save themselves the extra work of memorizing...
...play's best moments were its amusing ones, but Pinter's complex creation and the workshop's production did produce a dramatic close despite its unevenness. The audience shares Rose's shock and terror when she cries...
...Pilot house for one of the twelve villages making up the 10,000-acre El Dorado Hills development near Sacramento, Calif., consists of four interconnected pavilions for 1) living, 2) parents, 3) teen-age children, 4) service (a two-car garage, plus workshop, laundry, and storage space). The pavilions surround and set off terraces and a rock garden that any Japanese temple might be proud to own. Price...