Word: coriolanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: In addition to playing Love's Labour's Lost, Henry VIII, Coriolanus and The Pirates of Penzance, the festival presents The Canvas Barricade, a new comedy by Donald Lamont Jack...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: Coriolanus, Henry VIII, and Love's Labour's Lost alternating with The Pirates of Penzance...
Finney has two seasons at Stratford-on-Avon already behind him. As Olivier's understudy there, he went into Coriolanus when Sir Laurence went out with a slipped knee cartilage, carried off the part with a brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain...
...performers in their proper spheres, which in neither case includes Shakespeare. This unsuitability carries with it no ignominy; and the obvious devotion and will of these two cannot compensate. In the past decade, Miss Hepburn has played Rosalind, Portia, Beatrice, and Viola--none with great success. Ryan has done Coriolanus professionally and other roles informally. The handwriting on the wall is clear. The fact that a movie star, Marlon Brando, gave us in the film version of Julius Caesar an Antony unlikely to be surpassed is no cause for a general Hollywood stampede to the Bard: Brando is a unique...
...Bard. All the actors, British and American, like their predecessors, are involved in the attempts of their age to press Shakespeare into a contemporary mold. Orson Welles dressed his Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford...