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...rest of the cast again did justice to the script, although I once more wanted more speaking and less action. The red lights of the climax in Rex were replaced by the shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...
...Laura Esterman, as Nina, turns in the best performance in the crisis scenes. But though she does not over-dramatize, she sometimes speaks with too polished a voice for such an ingenuous character...
...Laura Esterman's Mile Moliere struck me as singularly realistic. At the same time Jill Newman, as Mile Herve, seemed too anxious to look like a nervous French girl, and Meg Meglatherly's coquettish walk, in the part of Mile de Brie seemed overdone. But this is likely to be a matter of individual taste...
...King is played by David Ritten-house '64, and his companions by John Ross, Harry Smith '65 and Richard Monette. Barbara Jean Friend plays the Princess, Rosalind John, Laura Esterman '66, and Mcdelon Hambro her ladies-in-waiting
...Smith's Agamemnon and Nicholas Pyle's Aegisthus provide fine support for Miss Tolentino, but the only character not overshadowed by her is Cassandra. Laura Esterman's tormented writhing and her cries of anguish are immensely moving; later she reappears as a quieter but equally impressive Electra...