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...Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed out of the meeting and returned with four militiamen to arrest the bard, but backed off when the crowd of young poetry lovers staged a stormy protest of their own. Dear Esenin, Russia has changed...
...deserve to be shown off. Notable in this production for one reason or another were a twitchy witch named Tarantula (Betsy Gesmer) who moved better than she talked, a sweet young thing named Hollyhock played by Polly Gambrill, a Squire (Susan Levin) who thought she was Marryin' Sam, a Bard (Sue Harmon) who could sing, and a rock singer (and composer), Elaine Woo, who moved better than she sang...
...nature makes the whole world kin." Thus Shakespeare himself provides the reason why productions of his plays, flourishing in barns and parks beneath the stars, have become a hardy harbinger of summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
After two years in the ideological doghouse, Russia's declamatory bard, Evgeny Evtushenko, 31, got back his traveling papers and poetic license, took off for a month's poetry-recital tour of Italy. And who should he find in Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made...
Predictably, some of the critics also wound up in a twitch over what one of them called the "tarting up" of the Bard. The Daily Mail found Graves's play doctoring "impertinent and silly-never did a clever man make so public a fool of himself." But the Observer, among others, decided it liked the prosciutto fine: "Not for years has the human substance of Shakespeare been refleeted like this." The public apparently agreed. Last week, after a month in the repertory, the National Theater's Much Ado was still selling out even the standing room back...