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...loyal Horatio, Stephen Lang is, like his two immediate predecessors on these boards, passable but bland--a far cry from the exemplary Horatio that Earle Hyman gave us here in 1958. In a traditional doubling, Michael Allinson is effective both as the possibly angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing...
...Michael Allinson looks sufficiently like a troubled and suspicious monarch whose reign has not been what he anticipated when deposing his predecessor. He sounds a good deal like the late Cyril Ritchard though he lacks Ritchard's inflective range. Since the King has a number of lengthy speeches. Allinson's delivery is annoyingly monotonous...
...Michael Allinson largely supports the play in his lead role as the successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke. Allinson struts around the stage like a long-legged bird secure on its own rocky turf, waving his arms and laughing from his belly while populating his imagination with his ace detective St. John Lord Merridew and a host of artful villains. Wyke's sixteenth century country house, the play's only set, is filled with bizarre paraphernalia. Among its pillars, arches, and cluttered bookcases sits a paper-mache automaton with a toothy smile. It laughs uproariously when Wyke activates it after each...
...CONVOLUTED DECEPTIONS sometimes surpass the cast's abilities. Curt Dawson's Tindle cannot maintain the timing and exuberance necessary to keep the robbery interesting, nor does he ever realize the vengeful anger his part demands. An incongruous airiness in Dawson's voice and the stiffness of his movements force Allinson to provide all the game's vitality, but it is difficult for him to do it all alone. Similarly Philip Farrar's Detective Doppler is lugubrious and meticulous without being convincing...
...with Ray Milland, who will go on to North Tonawanda, N.Y., Framingham, Mass., Wallingford, Conn., Warwick, R.I.); Gaithersburg, Md. (with Zachary Scott and Joan - daughter of Aaron - Copland, who will also take it to Devon, Pa., West Springfield, Mass., Owings Mills, Md., and Westbury, L.I.); Kansas City (with Michael Allinson, who will play it in Atlanta as well); Corning, N.Y. (with Allyn Ann McLerie and George Gaynes, on a tour that will hit Fayetteville, N.Y., Latham, N.Y., East Rochester, Southfield, Mich., Toronto, Nyack, N.Y., and East Hampton, L.I.); Santa Monica (with Edward Mulhare, Reginald Denny and Barbara Williams); Yonkers...