Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best sets in recent House productions: the sloping platform, recalling theatre tradition of the 19th century, makes the upstage actors easily visible behind those downstage. The set also captures the play's ambiguity of place and time, for the background suggests ancient Greece on one side (Ionic columns), Elizabethan England on the other (attractive filigree) and in the middle, where there is a long dark hallway draped with curtains of a fleur-de-lis pattern, an unspecified land of mystery and romance...
...Eliot called him "the singular poet with the delightful name." Cyril Tourneur's name is one of the few things known about the Elizabethan dramatist. In an era of prolific playwriting, he produced only two plays that have survived, The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy, and even the dates of his birth and death are blanks. He attained no great popularity among his contemporaries. The sole allusion to Tourneur in an old chronicle sums him up this...
...covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...
...parlor interior is smaller but much lighter and brighter than Pewter Pot's. The menu is also twice as extensive. A silver-haired, grandmotherly woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even...
...British acting. The mature actors-Olivier, Scofield, Gielgud, Richardson and Redgrave -ripened from talent to mastery to greatness. Like dynastic sires, they have inspired an exciting group of young successors-Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Ian McClellan, Tom Courtenay -actors less attuned to the niceties of craft, but ablaze with Elizabethan intensity. In Home, the U.S. debut of an extremely evocative new British playwright, David Storey, there is an opportunity to view a feat of artistry by Richardson and Gielgud that becomes legendary before one's eyes...