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...Agres, a spokesman for ICF, said ast night he did not know if any other cholars had withdrawn from the conference
...current Rosalind is the much-honored Eileen Atkins, making her AST debut. Mis Atkins is no stranger to the part, having played it (in bluejeans) back home with the Royal Shakespeare Company three years ago. She is still young enough for the role, though she is not so pretty as one would like. Her angular face is no insuperable drawback, however, since she spends most of the play disguised as a curly-headed Ganymede in a riding outfit...
...totally free of atrocious elocution--even in the bit parts, where one tends to find vocal ineptitude. I cannot fail to mention Tom McDermott's lovable portrayal of the tired old Adam, a role that some evidence indicates Shakespeare himself originally played. Praise too for Keith Baker, making his AST debut as Amiens; not only does he speak well but he proves himself an absolutely splendid tenor in rendering Lee Hoiby's songs. And the bright E-major setting of "It was a lover and his lass," the loveliest song in all the plays (albeit extraneous here), is enchantingly...
...play about the Salem witch trials, The Crucible. This is, after all, a year in which special attention is being given to our country's history. The choice might well have fallen on Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, which dramatizes incidents in the American Revolution; but the AST gave us that play six years ago. Furthermore, would it not be better to offer a work not only about America but by an American...
...nation's 200th birthday, it behooves us to do more than blow a trumpet and beat a drum. We should use the occasion to take stock of what is wrong with this country as well as what is right. Miller's play can help us do this. As the AST's director, Michael Kahn, said in an interview a few weeks ago, "I wanted to do The Crucible for our Bicentennial year. I think it's a terrific play, both hopeful for and critical of America...