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...final offering of the C.D.F. was Much Ado About Nothing, with Sir John Gielgud as both Benedick and director. Gielgud gave us a clean, crisp, meticulous production, beautifully and symmetrically staged in keeping with the symmetrical, Renaissance style of the play. Having played Benedick off and on for 28 years, he gave a performance that was marvelously nuanced. Still, as he himself has admitted, he is not an ideal Benedick. The part demands more brio than he has inside him to give. He plays the clarinet when he should be blowing a trumpet. Yet he was careful to choose...
Having forsworn the part of Hamlet a few years ago, Gielgud now says he will not play Benedick again after this production finishes its present run on Broadway. When someone objected, he replied, "I'll always be left with Lear and Prospero...
...though still very young, he is one of a handful who can boast of having acted in all thirty-seven of the Bard's plays. He provided a warm, even-keeled production on William D. Roberts' stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing. As Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse made a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. They were less reliable than their C.D.F. counterparts, but at times surpassed the Gielgud-Leighton team. (Alfred Drake still remains the best Benedick this country has seen in years.) Some...
...John Gielgud, one of the world's most eminent actors, and Margaret Leighton will star as the combatants in wit, Benedick and Beatrice. Sir John will also direct the production, and the cast will feature the noted Irish actor, Michael MacLiammoir...
...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse make a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper...