Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since I discussed this production at great length in these pages two years ago, it seemed worthwhile this time around to request an evaluation from a person who has himself played the role of Lear. Harold R. Scott '57, an award-winning actor well known in New York and abroad, played Lear professionally to high acclaim at the age of 22--thus following the lead of Britain's famed William Devlin, who first played the role at the same age. Mr. Scott, who was a drama critic for the Summer News in 1959, has recently been playing the leading role...
...hand) first; it smells of mortality." is difficult to imagine, but Mr. Carnovsky accomplishes it. And he thereby undermines the dignity, stature, and power he works so hard to establish in the early parts of the play and achieves right from Act I, Scene I--which any actor who has tackled the role will tell you is almost unplayable for credibility...
...final curtain we are left unmoved, untouched, and merely impressed by the technical power and personal magnetism of a great actor who got through a part that has so wrongly been labeled unactable. The tragedy is that Mr. Carnovsky's miss is such a near...
...Swan Song, would in itself be enough reason for going to the Ex tonight. Like much of Chekhov's work, the play is concerned with the conflict of old and new, the present and what has gone before. This conflict is centered in the figure of the old actor, who is superbly portrayed by Julian Lopez Morrillas One moment he is the aged, broken, drunk old man; the next, one sees his genious flash through as he monologues excerpts from Antony's funeral oration and Lear's storm speech. Eyes blazing, he momentarily recaptures the brilliance he possessed...
Michael Dunn is a dwarf. At the age of 30, he stands 3 ft. 10 in. with his socks on and weighs 78 lbs., if you include his eyeglasses. Dunn is also an actor and a singer. His talents in both areas are considerable...