Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson, the "respectable" anti-busing candidate who has been stumping the non-liberal, industrial centers of Springfield, Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Chicopee, New Bedford and Worcester--as well as not-so-blue-collar enclaves such as the Harvard Faculty Club--deny Wallace a plurality...
Equus. Peter Shaffer's powerful exploration of madness gets a fine production here, with stand-out performances by Dai Bradley as a boy who goes around blinding horses and Brian Bedford as the cynical psychiatrist who tries to cure him. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont Street, through February 7. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
Those are impressive sales figures in a state that has only 791,000 people (the book is not yet generally available outside New Hampshire). Says Don Alper, a bookseller in Bedford...
Equus. The show to catch if you're up to leaving Harvard this weekend. Peter Shaffer's powerful play gets a fine production here, with superb acting by Dai Bradley as a boy who goes around blinding horses and Brian Bedford as the cynical psychiatrist who tries to cure him. At the W ilbur Theater, 252 Tremont Street, through January 10. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees W ednesday and Saturday...
...ACTING in this show is superb throughout, from Brian Bedford's cold portrayal of the cynical Dysart to Humbert Allen Astredo's rendering of the nervous father, shuffling about, pulling his hat round in circles between his thumb and forefinger. Bedford's performance is best, although it was marred last Friday night by a great deal of spluttering and spittle in enunciation. As narrator, Dysart controls most of the ironic pitch and timbre of Equus, and Bedford brings to the role the kind of laconic understatement that's necessary for it to succeed. In the Broadway production I saw last...