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Even London's Aldwych Theater is transformed from an auditorium to a living part of Victorian England. Actors in costume greet the audience and show them to their seats. (Playgoers can see the production on two successive nights or, on Saturdays, in a marathon interrupted by a dinner break.) The cast then assembles onstage like a huge family and recites, in alternating chorus, a prologue to the curious life and adventures of Mr. Nicholas Nickleby. If this chorus work is an adaptation of classical theater technique-mastered in another grand R.S.C. production, The Greeks, staged last whiter -the sudden...
...misty dawn of antiquity when we first see the chorus of high-spirited young women on the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Aldwych Theater. They are prompting one another on the ancient myths, the way children count on their fingers. It sets the conversational tone of this dramatic cycle and evokes a time when people felt themselves to be not only the prey and pawns of the gods but their intimates as well...
...British lion may be muted, but Shakespeare still roars. His voice thunders and echoes through the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Coriolanus at London's Aldwych Theater. The play takes place on two fronts, the field of battle and the jugular terrain of class...
...promoter-organizer, touring Europe, Asia and the U.S. to recruit troupes such as the Moscow Art Theater, Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble and the Martha Graham Dance Company for performances in England. In 1964 he founded the World Theater Season, which brought foreign companies to the Aldwych Theater (London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company) every spring for a decade. Two years ago Daubeny won a knighthood for his services to the British theater...
...Bewitched is a difficult play, difficult to stage and difficult to watch, with its share of rough edges. It has had an enormous success d'estime at London's Aldwych Theatre, but as you could guess it's been Travesties that's been packing 'em in. And probably when the producers and the middle men sit down to decide which new plays from London are fit for American consumption, it is Travesties that will seem the more daring, seem the more avant garde, even seem the more effective comment on moral and dramatic issues. These impresarios will be wrong...