Word: forsooth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laudable portrayals of the evening do belong to Evans. The first is Biron's soliloquy "And I, forsooth, in love!" from Loye's Labour's Lost. The second is the scene in Midsummer Night's Dream where Bottom and his cronies prepare the "Pyramus and Thisbe" episode; here Evans, in a delightful virtuosic display, takes all the roles himself. The only tamdem bit that builds up any dramatic power at all is the closet scene from Hamlet, in which Miss Hayes' Gertrude is passable...