Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author is better suited than Shakespeare to this kind of confined performance. His characters describe the scenery. His imagery colors the world in which they move. There is so much for an actor to do with each line, that any but the best must stumble in the robes, or forget the demeanor, that a full-scale production demands. And there is so much for the audience to enjoy and consider in the words alone, that the traditional trappings are often a distraction...
...Munich last week, a handful of German students gathered to hear a lecture on the "New Drama in Egypt." Instead of talking about drama, however, Egyptian Director-Actor Abbas Antar created it by dousing himself with gasoline, igniting himself with a match and screaming, "I am demonstrating for Nasser...
...Fifth Republic is really a benevolent despotism, the popularity of the despot has apparently soothed the conscience of the French people. Television is the most successful purveyor of the Gaullist cult, and the General uses it like a professional actor. He commands sympathy as skillfully as he commands votes...
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. When the Stanislavsky-directed Moscow Art Theater last appeared in New York in 1924, it was the apostle of a new dramatic naturalism bent on depicting man with all his mental warts, body aches and soul pains. For U.S. actors it was a kind of Magna Carta, freeing them from stilted and artificial stage conventions. In more recent years, the Stanislavsky Method has suffered the old age of any revolution, which is to become a religion. The esthetic irony of the Moscow troupe's reappearance on the Broadway scene is that 41 years have...
Divorced. Leslie Caron, 33, elfin French film star (The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose); by Peter Hall, 34 director-producer of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, her second husband (her first: Chicago Meat Heir George "Geordie" Hormel II): on uncontested grounds of adultery with Hollywood Actor Warren Beatty, who was ordered to pay court costs: after nine years of marriage, two children; in London...