Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the witticism she intends. Her confidante Nerissa, as Marian Hailey plays her, comes over as rather strident. Jerry Dodge tries hard as young Gobbo, and Tom Lacy vastly overplays old Gobbo; it is, anyhow, well-nigh impossible to salvage their scene, which is one of the unfunniest comic scenes ever written by a genius...
...trouble lies elsewhere. And it is not difficult to surmise what happened. Cyril Ritchard is invited to play the rich comic part of Bottom the Weaver. Now you will recall that Bottom and his five fellow artisans are preparing to act out the tale of Pyramus and Thisby as part of the entertainment at the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom is assigned the role of Pyramus. Uncontent, he pleads, "Let me play the lion too." He is restricted to Pyramus, but the idea is planted...
...full-time director. As an actor, Ritchard does make a credible Oberon, imbuing him with a fitting amount of hauteur and mockery. His Bottom, though cockney, is not cocksure; it is too bland and superficial. This is a pity, for Bottom is the first of Shakespeare's great comic creations...
...squeal- ing; and she doesn't seem to understand what she is mouthing much of the time. Dorothy Tristan's Helena shows a wider vocal range and considerable skill as a farceuse. When she pleads to Demetrius, "Give me leave...to follow you," she waddles on her knees with comic aggressiveness; and when Lysander describes himself as "touching now the point of human skill," she instinctively grasps her breasts in self-protection...
...helpfully ing; and she doesn't seem to understand what she is mouthing much of the time. Dorothy Tristan's Helena shows a wider vocal range and considerable skill as a farceuse. When she pleads to Demetrius, "Give me leave...to follow you," she waddles on her knees with comic aggressiveness; and when Lysander describes himself as "touching now the point of human skill," she instinctively grasps her breasts in self-protection...