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...unconventional near-monologue Hughie (at the Rovale; previews begin this evening). It is the only completed play in a planned cycle of six. Dealing with illusion and reality, it should appeal to those who admire The Iceman Cometh. And Alan Schneider will be guiding two great players, Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth, through Edward Albee's new play. Tiny Alice (at the Billy Rose Theatre; previews begin Decembr...
...guiding precepts. "Let the laughs go and play the people," he says. When he makes a mistake, he is the first to acknowledge it. "Mike is the best director I've ever worked with, and that includes Gielgud and Peter Brook," says Brian Bedford of The Knack. "Mike has the patience to wait until the part slowly emerges. I'm sure he does guide you, but so subtly you think everything comes from within yourself...
...deeply trained Shakespearean, he novelly plays Richard with strength at the start, gradually shading him into weakness. He is also candid about the shortcomings of earlier actors in the role. Alec Guinness, he says, "was impressive without being definitive." Michael Redgrave "played it like Barbara Stanwyck with a mustache." Gielgud? "I guess he thought Richard was a neurasthenic who could cry at the drop of a crown." As for the play itself, in which Richard's queen is a young child, Hutt says: "It out-Humberts Humbert. It should be retitled Take Her, She's Nine...
...have, in sum, a production that is far from continuously exciting. Yet producer Reed might have had much worse luck. For all its shortcomings, the show is a more satisfying venture than the miserable mishmash that Burton and Gielgud are currently mixed up in on Broadway; and Sawyer is now an actor who deserves careful watching...
...real occasion," he concludes, "which is to me the true glory of the ephemeral art of the theatre--the living actor appearing before the living audience; the silence, the tension, the entrances and exits, the laughter and applause, the subtle changes between one night's performance and another's." Gielgud writes about what he knows well and sends us more clear-headed to the theatre...