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Theater at Harvard is like the food at Durgin Park--it's reasonably priced and there's a lot of it, but it's
By Julia M. Klein

Yeomen of the Guard. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players do it again, with another great comic opera. See Julia Klein's review (in this issue). April 28-May 1 at the Agassiz Theater. Tickets $2.75. Get them in advance at Holyoke Center.

Present Laughter. A Noel Coward musical, lots of light amusement. In the Kirkland House JCR at 8 p.m., April 29-May1. Tickets $2.00.

The Dragon. Evgeny Shvarts's classic (?) of underground Soviet drama, an allegory of dictatorship written in 1943. Performed by the students of Slavic 147, "Russian Drama." At the Loeb Ex, April 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m. Free. At Currier House, May 6-8, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the Currier House performances are $1.75 at Holyoke Center.

The Council of Love. The American premiere of Oscar Panizza's fairly bizarre play about the arrival of syphillis at the papal court. Sounds orgiastic, but may be good. At the Loeb Mainstage, April 29-May 2, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets $3.00 weekdays and Sundays, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays.

Woyzeck. Quincy House Drama Society is presenting this 19th century German play about a Herr Doctor who starts experimenting and goes insane. By Georg Buchner. At Quincy House, April 30 and May 1 at 8 p.m., May 1 also at 11 p.m.

The Mystery of Perry Clews. A modern extension of Shakespeare's "Pericles" by John Cromwell '36. Fairly confusing--the riddle of the Sphinx in this version become "Who hit Nelly in the belly?" There's no answer, of course. At Adams House, April 29-May 1, at 8 p.m., and on May 1 also at 11 p.m. Tickets $1.00.

The Night of the Iguana. At MIT's Kresge Theater, performed by the MIT Dramashop. April 29-May 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets $2.50.

Brother Blue. A great storyteller. If you've never heard him, you ought to go. Friday-Sunday at 8 p.m. in Emmanuel Church Chapel, 15 Newberry St. in Boston. Free, donations welcome.

Pieces and Quiet. The Pocket Mime Theater presents a series of original mime pieces at 67 Newberry St. in Boston. Friday at 8:30 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets $3.00

Equus. A psychiatrist and his horse (or something like that) the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St. in Boston at the end of April. Mon-Sat at 8 p.m., matinees on Wed and Sat at 2 p.m.

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