Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indicate how this has been accomplished, let me suggest some of the problems. The celebrated critic Hazlitt began his comments on the play with these words: "If we were to part with any of the author's comedies, it should be this." Certainly the work ranks near the bottom in the Shakespearean canon...
...parts executed by Woody Wickham with the innate grace of a Hasty Pudding veteran. Director Tim Mayer knows, among countless other things, something of the deceptive nature of initial appearance; the show's greatness rests largely on his refusal to submit to seductive archetype. Those of you who know Bottom as a goodhearted if demented bumbler, Puck as a juvenile sprite, Theseus as a wise Shakespearian justice, or Hippolyta as a content and passive fiancee, are due for the nicest kind of surprise; for in troubling to treat A Midsummer Night's Dream to a "new adaptation," Mayer has restored...
Costumed with successful eclecticism by Sarah Gates and played on Howard Cutler's elegant and functional set, all the cameras, flashlights, modern tunes, and anachronistic props, however funny, cannot take the show away from its brilliant and dedicated cast. Dean Gitter's fascinating Bottom remains the most difficult performance to fathom: his "wit" in the scenes with Titania almost passes for just that, and his death scene as Pyramus reveals Bottom, unbelievably, a capable actor--capable at least of temporarily affecting Theseus and Hippolyta, played superbly by Tommy Lee Jones and Lynette Saxe...
...unfunny -galumphs around with his shirt off, revealing a physique as saggy as the script. A busy actor these days, Matthau also stars in a current box-office hit, The Odd Couple (TIME, May 3). Thus, in a single season, he has touched the top and scraped the bottom...
Until then let's make light of it. Have you been keeping up with the Times? It's a lot. A couple of weeks ago column eight told of Parisian students occupying the Latin Quarter; column one had the word on the insurrection at Columbia; at the bottom of the page, on the left, was a story about 500 students in Brussels taking over the university; deep inside the first section ther was news of students rioting at th London School of Economics; section two told of the continuing "problems" with young radicals in Germany; the next day Brooklyn College...