Word: desdemona
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Among the APA's growing assets, the greatest is the emergence of a first-magnitude star among them. One month before forming APA, Rabb presciently married her. Rosemary Harris, 34, has played Desdemona to Burton's Othello, Ophelia to O'Toole's Hamlet, Elena to Olivier's Dr. Astroff and Redgrave's Uncle Vanya. In the U.S., she played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances...
...Midsummer Night's Dream from a collapsible mobile theater touring the five Boroughs* (TIME, July 10), and at present in Central Park an excellent production of Othello, with James Earl Jones as a hip-swiveling, primitive Moor. The staging is bold. In the bedroom scene, for example, Desdemona (Julienne Marie) does not just wait to be strangled. She makes a desperate dash to get away. Othello chases her, catches her when she trips on a flight of stairs, carries her, struggling, back to the bed, where he falls on her and chokes off her life...
More Art than Farce. An old silent movie flashes onto a screen. An unfaithful wife shoves her lover into a large armoire when her husband unexpectedly returns from a business trip. A second screen lights up. On it, Othello is about to strangle Desdemona, her cleavage akimbo. Screen 1: the wife shoves the armoire out of sight to hide it, but ends by shoving it right into Screen...
...himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry VI, Part II, Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony to drink small beer." Desdemona reproaches herself for having falsely "indicted" Othello and "suborn'd" her soul as a witness against him. In Venus and Adonis, the temptress sounds as if she were writing a contract: "Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips...
Micheal MacLiammoir's Iago is properly evil, although his tendency to spout his lines rapidly is at times distressing. Suzanne Cloutier is decorative as Desdemona. Her part has been cut down so far as to make it impossible for her to present a whole person, but she attempts, with near-success, to achieve a realistic portrayal...