Word: falstaffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interviewer: Of course, you went on to write the masterpieces of Otello and Falstaff, so your Shakespearean credentials are well in order. And Sir Peter, director of Britain's National Theater, obviously knows the Bard. His staging is almost cinematic in spots, using dissolves from one scene to another and staging a climactic final battle in stop action. What advice did you give...
...beer companies will inevitably mean fewer and fewer choices for consumers. That is something that no beer lover can welcome. These days, when the bartender asks, "What'll you have?" the options seldom if ever seem to include such familiar names as Rheingold, Knickerbocker, Hamm's and Falstaff. Thus as the industry grows more and more concentrated, with fewer companies ruling more of the market, bits of Americana itself will continue to disappear. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Stephen Koepp/New York and Paul A. Witteman/Milwaukee
...courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide, insisting that he not be named: "Do I like Ted? Do you like a volcano?" Turner's wife Jane says she is sure he must have been...
This time around, the AST has the services of that wonderful actor Roy Dotrice, whose portrayal of the aging John Aubrey in Brief Lives has, on four occasions, been a peak in my play going experience. If not yet in a class with Kilty and Berry, Dotrice's Falstaff (his first, I believe) is stunning all the same. He is quite at home in Falstaff's language-whether parodistic, satiric, prevaricatory, or just witty-and has amassed a line repertory of gestures and other movements to go with...
...captures Falstaff's deep love for Hal, a love that is nothing less than paternal (for Falstaff is as much Hal's father as is King Henry); he is quick to tousle the youth's hair or put his arm around Hal's shoulders And he makes "If to be old and merry be a sin" as touching as Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes" Chalk up another triumph for the doting Dotrice...