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A Study In Style: Short Plays By Pinter And Carlino Program [1968], University Of Maine Portland Campus
A Study In Style: Short Plays By Pinter And Carlino Program [1968], University Of Maine Portland Campus
Theatre Programs 1940-1969
The Dirty Old Man
Written by Lewis John Carlino
Directed by Thomas A. Power
The wisdom of age is often overpowered by the haste of youth. Occasionally age touches youth, but never as often or as well as we wish. Carlino shows us the awkwardness, the tenderness, and the pain that result from an old man and a young. girl attempting to bridge the gap. THE DIRTY OLD MAN was originally produced off Broadway in tandem with SARAH AND THE SAX under the omnibus title DOUBLETALK.
Review Sketches
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by William P. Steele
These short plays …
Benito Cereno Program [1968], University Of Maine Portland Campus
Benito Cereno Program [1968], University Of Maine Portland Campus
Theatre Programs 1940-1969
Written by Robert Lowell
Directed by David Wheeler
Performed by the Theatre Company of Boston
From the program:
AN HISTORICAL INCIDENT, first reported in Delano's Voyages and Travels, published in Boston in 1817, caught the imagination of Herman Melville some 40 years later. Melville, whose now famous novel, Moby Dick, had been a critical failure when it was first published in 1851, had turned to the writing of short stories. He used Delano's account as the basis of a short story which was published by Putnam's Magazine under the title of Benito Cereno.
MELVILLE'S STORY stirred brief interest, but then …