Word: dunnock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOEB last Thursday evening one wished that Mildred Dunnock in her recitation of a selection of Emily Dickinson's poems, had stepped aside to let Emily Dickinson through. As it was, she played the part of the the dragon guarding the gate...
Looking like a decolte rendition of the Dickinson stamp, in an English accent that came more from theatrics than the British Isles. Mildred Dunnock recited poems and read letters about frrriends, naatchah, death, Gawd...
...Mildred Dunnock read the poems as though she knew what they meant. Which is a crime not because she didn't knew what they meant, but because anyone who would stake their life on the meaning of one of Emily Dickinson's poems is foolish. At any rate it is doubtful that the poems had the kind of meaning that the cadences in Dunnock's voice suggested. Dunnock used the rhythms we ordinarily use in pronouncing rational sentences, which would suggest that rationality, as opposed to emotion, is of little use in getting at Emily Dickinson's poems...
LOEB DRAMA CENTER presents Mildred Dunnock and George Henry in An Evening of Emily Dickinson with music by Robert Schumann. Tonight and tomorrow night...
...play takes an almost maddeningly undramatic form. The first act consists of an interrogation of the murderer's husband (Richard A. Dysart) by a man who stands in the shadows and is known as The Questioner (Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock). The husband is a dull, evasive clod of a businessman, and the first act is enough of an ordeal to put a playgoer's patience in doubt. The second act redeems all. As certain healers are adept at touching the body to ease pain. Playwright Duras is skilled at touching...