Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the glow of inner pride when a devoted birder spots a rarity. One who glowed this season was Ben Coffey Jr. of Memphis, who saw seven pine siskins (common enough in the North, but rare in the mid-South and beyond) on his Mississippi count around a crossroads hamlet named Kara Avis...
Kobayashi has also staged a musical version of Hamlet and an adaptation of Carmen. His production of Turandot, Puccini's Italianate tragedy of the Orient, became a vehicle for a truckin' chorus...
...sheltered from the cradle up, the novel's hero, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, is an absentee gentleman landlord on the skids, vegetating contentedly in a St. Petersburg flat while his estates and his income go to pot. The book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter. Friends drop in and try to lure him into making the social rounds, but he shoos them off. Parasitical cronies cadge...
...into rehearsal, he was spending five to seven hours a day over the blueprints of the set, blocking out each scene with miniature cameras and calling the shots that would be used on the air. He was also helped by the physical properties of the set itself. Where the Hamlet set had been built in a circle with the cameras stationed in the center and radiating outward, Macbeth was all of a piece, like a stage setting. It consisted (see cut) of the exterior walls and drawbridge of Dunsinane, two interior courtyards and two stairways leading to Macbeth...
Maurice Evans, who has already played an excellent Hamlet and a sympathetic Richard II on NBC-TV shows, may have lacked the physical bulk and dominance that seem required for Macbeth. But as always, he spoke with clarity and feeling. So did Judith Anderson, who was superb in the sleepwalking scene. The rest of the cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken...