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...characterizations benefit from revealing gestures. They enhance Laura Esterman's fine performance as the minister's wife; she smooths her skirt self-consciously as she utters smug platitudes--and grasps her husband'; sleeve distractedly after falling in love with Dick Dudgeon...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: The Devil's Disciple | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Four actors are assigned the protean labor of deviding twenty roles among them. The task of creating four or more characters is a challenge which, unfortunately, none of the performers meets with total success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand...

Author: By Alan JAY Mason, | Title: 'No Apologies' Final Ex Production | 8/21/1963 | See Source »

Clayton Koelb, the Baron, and Laura Esterman, his wife, had deceptively complex roles, and neither succeeded in exploring thoroughly the intricacies of his part...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Strindberg's 'Link': A Bitter Bond | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

...Miss Esterman was not nearly despicable enough. Where Strindberg sketched a viper, Miss Esterman gave us just a very protective lioness. She defended the Baroness by emphasizing maternal feelings disproportionately, softening the destructive feminism which Strindberg had bitterly written in the part...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Strindberg's 'Link': A Bitter Bond | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

...polished, some of the minor characters actually add a great deal of the life and spark. John Williams is a fine horse trainer, Robert Lanchester a stately, ageing butler, and Timothy Mayer a wonderful Old Family Servant who often draws as many laughs as any of the principles. Laura Esterman was quite impressive as Philip's aged, senile mother...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: "The New York Idea" Opens at Loeb | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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