Word: aguecheek
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...fine Viola, Anna Larionova is a rather large Olivia. As Duke Orsino and Sir Toby Belch, V. Medvediev and M. Yanshin are, respectively, stolid and solid. In a funny role the latter is very funny. The rest of Sir Toby's circle is just as good. Sir Andrew Aguecheek (G. Vipin), Maria (A. Lisyanskaya), the clown (B. Freindlich), and Fabian (S. Filippov) conspire wonderfully with their hands, grunts, and songs as well as their (Russian) words. Though his role loses depth in the director's editing, V. Merkuriev as Malvolio is a fine victim for the happy crew of conspirators...
...play itself, a magnificent joke, was an admirable first choice for the freshman because its dialogue is fast and free. The two sub-plots, involving preposterous schemes to make fools of Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Viola, are very quick and it is here that the players show a comic enthusiasm which should have been sustained throughout the production. Director S. Heilpern Randall, with his good sense of the Shakespearean line, exploits the complete ludicrousness of the situation by treating it colloquially. In the rapid cross-fire of jokes in the garden and duel scenes...
...success of the play's low comedy is due mainly to the freshness of Roger Moldovan, Thomas Teal, and Judith Gilmartin, as Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Maria, the wench, respectively. Moldovan's Cyrano de Bergerac nose is unnecessary to show that he is a sot, but this does not detract from his relaxed, happily debauched portrayal. Teal's Augecheek borders on an elongated Jerry Lewis, and is very funny, dithering, and lovable. Miss Gilmartin, beguiling and spirited, ably completes their juvenile comradery...
What ailed Sir Andrew Aguecheek? Shakespeare made it clear that this improbable character in Twelfth Night had emotional problems and intellectual limitations: "I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world." Again: "Many do call me fool." But why? Surely not for the reason that Aguecheek himself offered: "I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm...
...last week's Lancet, London's Dr. William H. J. Summerskill indulged in a tour de force of long-range diagnosis came to the conclusion that the fool may have been right. Physician Summerskill worked it out this way: Aguecheek was drunk every night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy...