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...Brattle Theatre has come heartbreakingly close to putting out a truly great production of "Macbeth." They have missed it not through any deficiency in acting--Ruth Ford and William Devlin are probably the finest actors ever seen on the Brattle stage--but through some unperceptive directing which has taken fantastic liberties with Shakespeare...
...William Devlin's interpretation of the character of Macbeth is fully integrated with that of Lady Macbeth so the full force of the contrast between them is clear. Where Lady Macbeth's sense of guilt drives her to madness, that of Macbeth drives him to a hardness which is actually insensitivity. Macbeth, however, beset by his images, must draw upon the calmness of his wife. Devlin perfectly portrays his frenzied state as evil overcomes him and he can see that he will never have peace...
Author Ashford herself is the first to recognize this. She is now a grandmother of 60, the wife of James Devlin, a Norfolk market gardener who deals in fruit and flowers. Though occasionally she has felt he urge to write fiction, housekeeping the rearing of four children have left her "really too busy" to try. She finds the steady royalties of The Young Visiters very welcome," and even dreams of a rip to the U.S. as a result of the new edition. But with every passing year she becomes more conscious of the gulf that separates her present self from...
Just as on the stage, Devlin's voice on this record persuades you Lear was "every inch a king." He blazes through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...
Victor did the pressing, which means that it is good. The recording keeps Devlin within its technical limits when he goes to the very edge of control...