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...cast changes since the Broadway run, none of which affect the extraordinary quality of the production. Brian Murray, the original Rosencrantz, now has his characterization perfect. Laughing at the winds as he struggles along trying to penetrate the morass in which he finds himself, Murray makes his portrayal rival Alec McCowen's Hadrian in its timing and intensity. In addition, the Derek Goldby staging remains as graceful and moving as a year ago, and the Richard Pilbrow lighting plot still strikes me as the best I've ever seen...
...Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is an eccentric misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a stunning performance that is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style, Alec McCowen manages to evoke for Rolfe a sense of pity and affection...
Pope in history. With an outstanding command of technique and a wealth of small mannerisms under perfect control, Alec McCowen displays Rolfe's narcissism and cunning, his insincerity, vulnerability and genuine religious obsession. His performance may well be one of the major theatrical events of the decade...
...marvelous to hear an audience listening," says Alec McCowen. He heard that rapt and magic silence for seven months in the triumphant London production of Hadrian VII (TIME, May 31, 1968). Now he is hearing it again in Manhattan, where Hadrian opened last week to critical bravos that echoed those back home. Reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic have called McCowen's performance one of the major theatrical events of the decade...
Hadrian VII--Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Alec McCowen gives what many feel is one of the great performances of our generation. Previewing at the HELEN HAYES, W. 46th...