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Alike in an abhorrence of war and the inhumanities perpetrated on man by men, two plays, one German and one English, have recently gained acclaim in England. The Rabbit Race, by Martin Walser, and Oh What A Lovely War, produced by the London Theatre Workshop under the direction of Joan Littlewood, offer a contrast in the methods by which members of the cold war generation have tried to excite the conscience of their audience. Utilizing more or less conventional techniques, Walser presents an increasingly somber psychological drama; while Miss Littlewood employs several innovations in a satirical revue which bears...
...played, but does know that it will be performed with love, zest, and craftsmanlike precision. There is no cult of personality at Marlboro despite the musical giants on the premises. Pianist Rudolf Serkin, who has also been playing at Tanglewood this season, is artistic director of the chamber music workshop. Pablo Casals is conducting master classes on the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites and Gamba Sonatas and public performances of Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony (the "Italian" Symphony) and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony...
...Loeb Experimental Theatre is in some ways not a theatre at all. It has more in common with a workshop or a classroom, where new ideas can be born, developed or rejected. The process of education can go on frankly there, free of the careerist anxieties that attend a polished Main Stage play...
...worth repeating that this is basically a workshop performance of a play that is not yet in its final form, a truly experimental production rather than a conventional play in a small theatre. It is likely that changes will have been made by tonight's performance, since Mayer and his actors are willing to learn from experience. The value of the Experimental Theatre lies in exactly this sort of innovation...
...teeth had been put there by Producer-Director Joan Littlewood in her first theatrical venture since she stormed away from her celebrated theater workshop two years ago in financial frustration. The subject is World War I, and what happens onstage is fractionally reminiscent of a TV documentary-a cumulative and episodic re-creation of the 1914-18 war years, mixing acted vignettes with still pictures flashed on a screen, and spelling out statistical information on a high frieze of light bulbs: 2,500,000 DEAD BY 1916. To say the least, this is unlikely material for live theater...