Word: astes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twelfth Night offers unusual latitude to a director; indeed the dramatist himself provided it with the subtitle What You Will. But whoever painted the wooden sign outside the AST grounds went too far in calling the play The Twelfth Night; perhaps he came to work from watching The Seventh Dawn on the Late Late Show...
...AST's first attempt, in 1960, went beyond all permissible bounds in its Coney Island hodgepodge of a production. It did better in 1966, and still better in 1974. Taken as a whole, the current version is as good as the third. Even if one disagrees with some of Freedman's initial decisions, one must admit that the result is a smooth and elegant production. Not many of the players and staff have worked at the AST before, and Freedman was probably wise to bring in a considerable roster of people with whom he had worked elsewhere. With one major...
Philip Kraus is suitable as Sebastian, the twin brother Viola believes lost at sea. As in the two previous AST productions, the confusion of the two siblings is made more credible by having Kraus act somewhat effeminately--both twins thus being androgynous. In Shakespeare's day the problem naturally did not arise, since both roles were played by young boys, actresses being forbidden by law until the Rest oration...
...rest of the passengers who had boarded Pan Am's Flight 688 in Frankfurt, West Germany, one morning ast week, there seemed nothing remarkable about the bearded man and his three neatly dressed companions. But as soon as the jet landed at West Berlin's Tegel Airport, the foursome rushed into...
DIED. René Goscinny, 51, creator of Astérix, France's most popular comic strip; of a heart attack; in Paris. Astérix, a diminutive Gaul, was a spokesman for all the shrewd little guys who fearlessly take on bigger adversaries-not for ideological reasons but in order to be able to eat, drink and be merry. Three weeks before he died, Goscinny realized his dream of being syndicated...