Word: heaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rights, this play, like Antony and Cleopatra, should have a double title-something like Macbeth and Wife or Two on the Heath-for Lady Macbeth is fully as important as her husband. Hamlet can get along with a second-rate Ophelia, but if the actress who plays Lady Macbeth is inadequate, or just barely good, the entire play suffers accordingly. That, in brief, is what is wrong with Nicol Williamson's production, which opened at Manhattan's Circle in the Square last week. Andrea Weber may be a gifted young actress, but she is definitely...
...school and medical school interviews. After that it goes back in the drawer." All perfectly fitting, suggests Harvard's John Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus. The key is not for success, he says. "It is for vision, the The founder, John Heath quest for understanding...
Apart from its affectionate snapshots of theatrical mechanics, backstage bitchiness, superstitious rituals and votive dedication, The Dresser's compounded impact comes from its being a Lear within a Lear. Norman is Shakespeare's Fool as much as he is Sir's. The storm-ravaged heath is Britain under the lightning bolts of the Luftwaffe, and Sir's stunted wartime company resembles the decimated retinue of soldiery left to Lear's command. In his foray into town, shivering, soaked, his mind cast adrift from its moorings, Sir could be Lear's naked "unaccommodated man" shorn...
...became once again popular. But, as Sproat writes, the notion that he had betrayed his country "followed him to his grave." As late as 1972, when Sproat tried to recommend Wodehouse (who during his life published more than 90 books) for knighthood, then-Prime Minister Edward Heath refused to back...
...James, is one of three Buckley business associates cited in the complaint. John has devoted his career to carrying on the enterprises that grew out of the lucrative Venezuelan oil ventures of the family patriarch, William Sr., who died in 1958. Also cited by the SEC were Benjamin Heath, 67, widower of one of the elder Buckley's daughters, and C. Dean Reasoner, a Washington lawyer who had long helped manage the Buckley businesses...