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...most controversial performance is Eugene Gervasi's Fool. Gervasi's every moment was tremendously stylized, to the point where he seemed to have rehearsed in someone else's production. But he spoke better than most, and his mournful grace made a good foil for Lear's frenzy. Only in the scene on the heath did his method fail...
...Jean, the valet, Eugene Gervasi gives an attractive, albeit uneven, performance. The obvious charm which Strindberg has poured into the character is visible, in Gervasi's rendering, but the cultivated polish and the sinister selfishness underneath are not. Nevertheless, when the script offers him a sharp line, Gervasi delivers it with grace and a fine sense of timing...
Richard has been called to renounce his crown in the sight of the Commons, to cloak Bolingbroke's usurpation in an air of constitutionality. The formal phrases of abdication are written in rhyming couplets, which Gervasi delivers with heavy emphasis on accents and rhymes, his sing-song manner perfectly bringing out the empty formality and compulsion by which Richard is relinquishing his throne...
...crown abandoned, Richard then discourses on his woes in flowing poetry. Gervasi changes completely and obviously, heightening the difference in mood and building the scene to the climax of his actual departure...
...Gervasi and Lumbard each directed two of the bits; in this, as in the acting, the Players have been fortunate to assemble well-applied talent...