Word: colleens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest...
...their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman, Colleen Dewhurst achieves a masterly transitional shading between feline will and wiles and the whole-souled vulnerability of love. Son Eben is played by Rip Torn, who unfortunately adopts a tone of flat understatement and clenched-nerves hysteria that tends to throw the play's passions off pitch...
...girls are not helped by an unfortunate etymological process which has added an unlooked for ribaldry to the operetta). Only Celia (Miss Elinor Martin) has the wild-eyed boredom proper to a group of immortals who cannot determine why they bother to trip their completely meaningless measures. And Miss Colleen Ryan, the Queen of the Fairies, despite her attractive contralto voice, lacks the heavy authority of a true monarch...
Permanent Home. Some first-rate actors have emerged from the festival company, notably Colleen Dewhurst, who starred last season in Broadway's prize-winning All the Way Home, and George C. Scott (The Wall, The Andersonville Trial). The city has lately been at pains to reverse Moses. It has appropriated $60,000 to help pay for the current season, and next month a new 2,500-seat, $400,000 amphitheater will be completed on the shore of Central Park's Lake Belvedere, giving the New York Shakespeare Festival a permanent home...
...brother looms too large, performs too loud; the play is far too long in ending and then ends badly. Other things in the play seem insufficient and even flat: scenes lack outward drama without displaying any of Agee's inner force. But, with good performances by Colleen Dewhurst, Arthur Hill, Aline MacMahon and John Megna (as the small son), the people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov, really substituted feeling for drama, like Chekhov tinged sadness with humor, and showed a compassion...