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...play itself provides a perfect vehicle for his skills. Hadrian is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fantasy and fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, who died in 1913 at the age of 53 and was, to put it simply, as mad as a hatter. He disgraced himself at Oxford by going to a fancy dress ball as a raven and voiding a pint of whitewash from his tail in front of the Prince of Wales. He converted to Roman Catholicism and, in pursuit of holy orders, got himself expelled from two different seminaries for "lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Paranoid as Pope | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...marvelous to hear an audience listening," says Alec McCowen. He heard that rapt and magic silence for seven months in the triumphant London production of Hadrian VII (TIME, May 31, 1968). Now he is hearing it again in Manhattan, where Hadrian opened last week to critical bravos that echoed those back home. Reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic have called McCowen's performance one of the major theatrical events of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Paranoid as Pope | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Hadrian VII--Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Alec McCowen gives what many feel is one of the great performances of our generation. Previewing at the HELEN HAYES, W. 46th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas in New York: The Plays to See | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...HADRIAN VII, by Peter Luke, with British Actor Alec McCowen. Adapted from novel by Frederick William Rolfe. A seminary reject becomes Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Broadway Season | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...Emperor Trajan was so taken by his triumphs, that to satisfy his pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas, the custom has largely fallen into desuetude since Suetonius, who as the Emperor Hadrian's private secretary had the opportunity-and encouragement-to sift imperial dossiers. Had the practice been followed, history might read quite differently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon's Own Epic | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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