Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn, (through Sept. 14). The comedy Much Ado About Nothing is directed by London's Peter Gill in his American debut; Henry V has Len Cariou in the title role; while Hamlet is a stunning full-length version with Brian Bedford as the prince, Maria Tucci as Ophelia and Morris Carnovsky as Polonius. For variety, Chekhov makes a premier appearance at this festival in a supple staging of The Three Sisters...
...Note--"Henry V" continues' through early September in alternation with "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Hamlet," and will be joined in late July by Chekhov's "The Three Sister." The other productions will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque Festival grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre traditionally tend to begin most promptly at their designated hour. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...
...Halberstam, Kennedy was a man caught between principle and practicality, between the new politics and the old, racked by indecision and buffeted by forces and events beyond prophecy or control. "He was playing Hamlet," writes Halberstam, "thinking about the race constantly, wanting to make it, being led there by his emotions again and again, only to be brought back from the brink by the cold words of his closet advisors...
...gratuitous aside ("That was Gene McCarthy; he didn't know when he was licked"), Witcover usually keeps his feelings for Kennedy in check: his high esteem for the man comes through all the stronger because he also criticizes some of his actions. Taking Halberstam's Hamlet comparison a step further, Witcover sees...
...need for originality is much prized by Cortazar. He once cast Theseus as a dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...