Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosalind is of course of heroine of the play. Yet in this production she comes off second-best to her companion Celia. Ideally, the Misses Hunter and Nye ought to exchange parts; and this would put the play into better balance...
...cigarette lighter. The usurping Duke Frederick is decked out entirely in white, except for a diplomat's baldric-like red sash, and, with his beard, is a double for Peter Ustinov. For him Baker has invented (taking a cue from Violenta in All's Well?) a silent female companion who slinks about in a black gown and ling cigarette-holder, a refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes and a monocle, a tie pin and boutonniere. the first lord...
...forest, the banished Duke wears rimless spectacles and lets his shirt hang out all the time. Jaques is in sandals. Sir Oliver Martext, garbed as a Victorian vicar, periodically bicycles on and off stage blowing a hideous horn. Rosalind, in disguise, sports a hunter's red cap; while her companion Celia appears with a white boa, hatbox, and birdcage, and even paints her eyelashes using a pool for a mirror...
...first is the intense young individual who values ideas and comments on academic problems with such insight and cleverness that he forgets to shave or wash. He is a grind and a recluse; he rots in Widener. The second is the companion of wine, women, and money. He talks it over in the Club in his oval-shaped Brooks Brothers suit. The third is the anti-intellectual slob--the animal. He grunts and sweats in Briggs Cage...
...have been a pleasant companion...