Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Jerome Kilty's resourceful direction, the Group 20 Players have come up with a production that preserves the grand sweep of the work and captures its many facets. It is a glorious extravaganza--a huge cast of some seventy or eighty complete with child acrobats and jugglers, not to mention the dazzlingly colorful costumes--but one in which Kilty has taken great pains with the blocking and with fine details. And when he stages a big battle scene, it has all the trimmings. (He is using the wonderfully rolling translation that Brian Hooker made for the actor Walter Hampden...
After outlining the director's relations with the producer and designer, Guthrie said, "The really crucial thing is casting. Suppose I want to do Macbeth. Who is my first choice for the lead? Lawrence Olivier. But the Oliviers are more in demand than any other players in the world. So harassed are they with mountains of marvelous offers that they must feel as though they had to decide whether to tear up the Magna Charta before breakfast or put the Crown Jewels down the lavatory and pull the chain. So it is that a director almost never...
...dealing with a pack of engineers, for example. Don't keep actors just sitting on their behinds and reading the play a la Stanislavsky. Dame Edith Evans says she has to move on her feet in order to think and react imaginatively. You might be able to take your cast off to a farm for six months to read Uncle Vanya or The Cherry Orchard, but you can't do that with Tunnel of Love...
...Tufts cast deserves real credit for its performance. Uncoordinated until now, it clicks crisply; and the machinery of America, moving slowly at first, warms and speeds up as the play progresses. The play's farrago of dramatic styles, songs, dances and persons is difficult to harmonize, but the loosely knit structure of the play is bound into a tightly cohesive knot, creating a final fluidity. Leads and choruses maintain the spritely and varying rhythms of American life throughout. The same persons flying-shuttled in and out of different roles, weaving the loom of America. Robert Dargie as Uncle...
...people content, its crime rate low, and even its clocks willing to jog along a full six hours behind those in the rest of East Africa. But that was before democracy raised its enlightened head. Last week as Zanzibaris, dressed in their Sunday best, trooped to the polls to cast the first votes of their lives, the world caught up with Zanzibar...