Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bacchae--A triumph for the Charles Playhouse and all concerned. Director Timothy S. Mayer has updated Euripides' play in translation and costumes, invested it with modern music, and staged it almost vertically. The devices are amazingly consistent with one another, also with the interpretation, and most of all with the play. The cast is fine. At the CHARLES, 76 Warrenton...
...Days at Peking--The Boxer Rebellion filmed in Spain with Dame Flora Robson as a wily Chinese, and Charlton Heston and the never-to-be-sufficiently studied Ava Gardner as doomed lovers. Nicholas Ray's last film is neither up to scratch nor all his (second-unit director Andrew Marton took over when Ray fell ill); but anything by the director of Rebel Wihtout a Cause, Party Girl, and Johnny Guitar is top-notch film-making by anyone's standards. At CARPENTER CENTER, Sunday...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's Lands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...
...Lion in Winter--Pretension unleashed, most notably that of Anthony Harvey, the director, who seems bent on doing everything as conspicuously as he can. Neither Peter O'Toole nor Katharine Hepburn gives much of a performance in this cumbersomely filmed version of James Goldman's play, which was unconvincing to start with. At the PARIS CINEMA, 841 Boylston...
...simplicity, a three-act visit with characters who see their hopes turn to ashes over a period of 17 years can provide emotional fire for the audience if all the parts of the production function properly. The happy news at the Loeb this week is that director George Hamlin has seen to it that everything about his Promise is right; a production that could have been a fiasco (as this play was in its Broadway version last year) is an often chilling piece of theatre instead...