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Future generations will undoubtedly look back on the '50s, '60s and emerging 70s as a golden age of British acting. The mature actors-Olivier, Scofield, Gielgud, Richardson and Redgrave -ripened from talent to mastery to greatness. Like dynastic sires, they have inspired an exciting group of young successors-Albert Finney, Nicol Williamson, Ian McClellan, Tom Courtenay -actors less attuned to the niceties of craft, but ablaze with Elizabethan intensity. In Home, the U.S. debut of an extremely evocative new British playwright, David Storey, there is an opportunity to view a feat of artistry by Richardson and Gielgud that...
Living Textbooks. What is locally being called the John Gielgud-Ralph Richardson play is not, of course, written by those two distinguished performers. It is simply a play in which they so dominate that contributions by other hands are hopelessly swamped. It is Home, a wry, rather thin portrayal of a group of crotchety elders in what turns out to be a mental institution, written by David Storey (whose other current London play, The Contractor, gives emphatic proof that his gifts are not always going to be swamped). As two inmates in the twilight of sanity and senility, Gielgud...
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