Word: dictional
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This is a tall order. But the Stratford players have already made big strides in this direction. In general, there is a laudable clarity of speech, though breathing and musicality of diction still need work. And a number of members of the troupe have shown extraordinary versatility in the types of role they can do well...
...timing she has! Her performance in either play alone would be an impressive achievement. But her ability to undergo such a transformation during intermission is almost uncanny. And this is much more than a change of costume, makeup and wig; she does it through her posture, gait, gesture, diction and other ways. Through extraordinary muscular control, she is able to change her whole repertory of facial contours from those of a stunning beauty to those of an uncomely nobody. Genius is not a word to be tossed about lightly; but Miss Page has unmistakable marks of genius. She has moments...
...well suited to her role of the uneducated wife (which raised Geraldine Page to Broadway stardom): she speaks the English language far too beautifully. Her highly cultured accent would never be found in a woman who cannot even read. Still, it is a pleasure to listen to her diction...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
...Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who, fine as he is in the more realistic modern repertory, cannot attune his diction to the period style required here...