Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staging of Bible material, like Alec McCowen's recital of the Gospel of St. Mark [Sept. 18], can have unexpected results. An actor had delivered the 23rd Psalm before an enthralled audience. Days later he heard an old rector read it in church. "The Lord is my Shepherd ..." After the service he grasped the rector's hand with the words, "Sir, I know the Psalm, but you know the Shepherd...
...really believes that Huntington, et. al., were "wrong" in encouraging U.S. destruction in Vietnam, it should be obvious that that caricature of a "war" was the inevitable result of political-economic theories and values which Huntington and scores of other professors here believe in and regularly dish out as gospel truth in classes every day, unchallenged by students. Such professors' inability to see that socialism has a fundamental and genuine appeal to oppressed peoples everywhere, and that privilege and wealth are detested by the poor, blinds them to the essential justness of "revolutionary" movements in the Third World...
...simple audacity of the enterprise is breathtaking. English Actor Alec McCowen, casually dressed in a sports coat and open-necked shirt, strolls onto a stage furnished only with a table and three chairs and recites, from memory, the entire Gospel according to St. Mark, then strolls off again. It is the sort of feat that inevitably is called a tour de force; yet a tour de force is precisely what it is not. The performance, quietly magnificent as it is, nevertheless is purged of all bravura. It is compelling theater that is at the same time nontheatrical...
...Mark's Gospel McCowen has found a vehicle perfectly suited to his range. For the material most resembles an extended song cycle. Nuance, focus and miniaturized drama are the order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled...
...Gospel, of course, means good news-which these plans certainly are for the theatergoers in both countries. As delivered by McCowen, Mark is a triumph of the human voice and the English language. - Christopher Porterfield