Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Directors Prescott Evarts' and Dave Green's blocking is competent, and they make clever use of the Christ Church interior. But the acting and diction of most of the cast is reminiscent of a Sunday School recitation. Everyman is a delicate play, and the overstatement of the text must be moderated by a straight and unembellished delivery if the allegory is to be believable and effective as theater. Prescott Evarts overacts the central role of Everyman with false emotion and gestures that border on the ridiculous. He seems, as actor and director, to have no idea of the simplicity...
...only person in the cast who seemed to have any understanding of the play was Ethan Emery who was marvelously sardonic in a bit of satirical humor with a Mephistopholean laugh, representing Material Goods. Robert Hauert seemed to show possibility in his brief appearance as Strength, but the other players were barely competent...
...rest of the cast could have been understood and incorporated the childlike spirit and earnestness of the play that is killed by amateur histrionics, The Canterbury production could have been the success that the work deserves...
Teacher v. Priest. Scholars are trying ceaselessly to cast these shadowy roles with known actors on the stage of history. In an erudite and fascinating game, high priest after high priest has been tried for the roles...
...took Rogosin 18 months and cost $60,000, including drinks for the cast. By the end of 1955 he had 100,000 feet of film, trenchantly photographed by Richard Bagley (The Quiet One). All this has been sensitively cut by Carl Lerner into a 65-minute movie that promises the safe delights of slumming but carries the, spectator into scenes that will sear his eyeballs like a splash of rotgut...