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...difficult role of Corday's lover Duperet, Ben Evett is hilariously lewd, while Laurie Gallueto is equally effective in the role of Simonne Evrard, the head of Charenton, who tries to neal her patients through participation in art. At the same time, she is the censor of the play, who interrupts subversive talk and menacingly reminds the crazies that "everything is being done to alleviate sufferings." Pale and stone-faced, she makes the audience's blood run cold...
Only two characters come close to achieving that timelessness and universality which make a character endure. Ben Evett, who plays the role of Vindice with puckish bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder...
Nick Wyse as Romeo supports her admirably, as does Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends...
...tune of $25 million and is expected to spend 10% more in 1964. Chase Manhattan Bank has a $500,000 collection of modern art and gives some $350,000 a year to educational and cultural projects. The Basic-Witz Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, Va., commissioned a concerto by Robert Evett for its 75th anniversary, and General Motors recently sent its employees 600,000 copies of two booklets: French Impressionism and Masterpieces from the Louvre...
...Marianne Evett. Senior resident of Cabot, yesterday attributed the incidents to carelessness in leaving wallets in plain sight. Catherine B. Sweet, senior resident of Eliot, also blamed the thefts on a "Casual attitude" toward security means the "I hope and think this was just and outside job." she remarked...