Word: becket
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...DRAMATIC GESTURE] After his loose talk leads to the murder of Thomas a Becket in 1170, he submits to flogging...
...national wallow, albeit in her own private Windsor way. She begged their indulgence as she too tried--here she reached for the supreme code word of touchy-feely self-pity--to "cope." This performance was not exactly Henry II having himself ostentatiously flogged for causing the death of Thomas Becket. But it was, in its own bloodless way, mortifying--as the Queen's frenzied subjects meant...
...always, the West End is also a showcase for revivals: Our Town with Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; Becket, with Derek Jacobi as the saintly bishop and Robert Lindsay as his carousing King; Tartuffe, with Paul Eddington as the dithery paterfamilias turned acolyte to a charlatan and Felicity Kendal as the saucy, commonsensical maid in a cheerily broad staging, almost willfully devoid of undertone or relevance, by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company...