Principia College - Sheaf Yearbook (Elsah, IL)

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The Chalk Garden The Chalk Garden, by Enid Bagnold, is equally concerned with the choice between love and exploitation, substance and form, truth and fantasy, health and decay. The cen- tral metaphor of the play is obviously the chalk garden in which little flourishes since the right nutrients are miss- ing. just so, the grandaughter fails to flourish healthily because the right nutrients of love and discipline are miss- ing. It is a play which finally affirms affection, wonder, substance as opposed to mere form and hope and compas- sion as the necessary ingredients for meaningful living. The challenge of The Chalk Garden is establishing bal- ance between the emotional realism and verbal styliza- tion of die play. It is a work whose human problems and anguish are very deep, but whose characters express themselves in an almost superhuman elegance and wit. I think our production had more guts than elegance. But it takes tremendous vocal virtuosity to handle Bagnold's dia logue with the deftness, subtlty and variety it demands. Many professional American actors would have difficulty with it, and did in the original Broadway production. Alan Lindgren

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