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...seasons back, has completed a 7,000-mile barnstorming tour of eleven states with his Shakespeare Festival Players. No breath of Shakespeare stirs at the moment on Broadway, but off-Broadway's Phoenix Theater has just concluded an excellent revival of Henry IV, Parts I and II. John Gielgud's Ages of Man recording, patterned on his brilliant stage readings of last season, has sold 30,000 copies. Macbeth is being taped...
Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer knows a tormented family when he sees one, and manipulates its members with dramatic skill. Deftly directed by Sir John Gielgud, with Jessica Tandy...
Five Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless un-togetherness and snapping tensions nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer, well staged by Director John Gielgud...
Five Finger Exercise. There is more than a measure of truth in Playwright Peter Shaffer's picture of English country life, and John Gielgud's fine direction helps to keep the uneven play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) from becoming intolerably cat-and-mousey, turns it into an engrossing production...
Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of its discontent...