Word: casting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting roles in Macbeth are notoriously less fully rounded on paper than those in the other great Shakespearean tragedies, and thus require special efforts for appreciable individualization. In a good many cases the present cast is up to the task...
Trumpet-tongued Richard Waring is wonderfully cast as the swaggering braggart Parolles, an exhibitionist in sartorial as well as vocal matters. Larry Gates is a first-rate King of France, and nearly succeeds in making his sick-bed scene credible. Will Geer is a lovable Lafeu, and has come up with some very original and effective line-readings. Aline MacMahon is aptly warm-hearted as the Countess; and Barbara Barrie's Diana is properly wily yet pure. Hiram Sherman has fun with the Sergeant's mumbo-jumbo; and among other commendable jobs are Jack Bittner's Clown (though his most...
Agnes and Michael, the husband and wife of the piece, comprise the entire cast. Therefore, this is essentially an acting piece. As such it requires extremely accomplished character actors who can travel smoothly from their late twenties to their early sixties during a brief two hours. And being an intimate, homey piece, it is frequently performed by husband and wife teams, to catch the authentic flavor of married life...
...directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry's legs. In the ballet's climax, the cast crowded about the palace gates to salute the Queen with ringing, patriotic cheers...
...under the direction of Mr. Kilty, who has deployed them with considerable skill on a graceless set by William D. Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...