Word: anderman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than the first. Rarely have two actors so young and so full of animal magnetism played the two key roles Philip Anglim, best known for his work as John Merrick in The Elephant Man brings to his Macbeth the boundless energy of a fledgling Henry V. The shapely Maureen Anderman makes Lady Macbeth a hot-blooded sex symbol. One can visualize the pair being written up in the gossip columns as smart society's latest darlings and very much on the rise...
This sort of approach does have its drawbacks. The desolating pathos of madness is missing from Anderman's mad scene. Nothing in Anglim's countenance suggests that he has "supp'd full with horrors " But the political core of the play remains intact. Macbeth is a politician's tragedy. It is full of the cagey schemes and ruthless deeds by which men seek to attain and hold power, and of the cruel downfall which they court...
...accident immures Whiteside (Ellis Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...