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...alphabet capitals hovers over the stage. A yellow scrim hangs in front, with sunflowers traced on it. As Tharon Musser's lighting changes, suggestions of a lion's head appear; and shortly some slinky jazz with a perky clarinet over a tonic-dominant ostinato ushers in the Lion (Ted Graeber) with a lioness (Jane Farnol). The two animals perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges in a few boxing-ring...
Without benefit of voice or grimace, Ted Graeber's Lion, here and later in the play, is a remarkably adept and communicative mime. And Troobnick too manages to maintain his appealing level of performance...
...play, being a Renaissance-styled script, has other symmetrically balanced pairs in its cast. The young lovers Demetrius (John Cunningham) and Lysander (Ted Graeber?) are admirably matched, the crisp delivery of the former matching the sonorous timbre of the latter. It is not their fault that they fail to convey much individuality; Shakespeare was interested in their situations, not their personalities...
...servant Tranio, Richard Morse shows little of the talent of his celebrated brother Robert; and the three other servants come off only a little better. Ted Graeber, dressed in blue with pink trim, has one engaging bit as a prissy tailor...
Layer Cakes. Ernst Graeber is a simple German foot soldier with both hands in the crumbling dike of the Eastern Front in the spring of 1944. For Graeber and his comrades, hell is not only the Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...