Word: ado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President "prostitute his dignity" to discuss matters personally with the sit-ins. That was all Lyndon wanted to hear. Shortly thereafter, White House guards hauled the sit-ins off to jail. Orders from Johnson followed instantly: from now on, any such demonstrators were to be tossed out without any ado...
...DIEGO. In Balboa Park, the replica Globe Theater contains productions this summer of Measure for Measure. Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. The first is notable chiefly because the actors wear codpieces, but San Diego audiences do not comprehend the play's intricate fornications. The second features a good performance by Charles Macaulay, a discovery from television. And the third is memorable because it was directed by B. Iden Payne, 82, a formidable figure in professional and bush theater for more than 60 years. His Much Ado is literal, straightforward, underdirected and onedimensional, which will indicate to any former...
Stratford's Richard III is equally unsettling. As Douglas Watson plays him, Richard is monstrously twitchy but uncomplicatedly gleeful, a modern rather than a medieval sicknik, never giving the sense that he really loves evil for its own sake. The company's Much Ado About Nothing, on the other hand, is the best evening for sale at Stratford this summer. Riotous and briskly paced, with leafy sets, garden-party costumes and lighthearted acting, it goes some distance toward being the dish of sherbet that Much Ado should...
GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Lakewood, Ohio): The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry VI, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra...
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Stratford, Conn.): Much Ado, Richard III and Hamlet...