Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Beckoned to Elsinore they know not why, Tom Stoppard's neo-Elizabethan protagonists wander through historical events looking for significance and through their lives in search of identity. John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht share with the audience each nuance of meaning, each streak of mordant...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. To Shakespeare, Hamlet's university friends were nothing but functionaries, but to British Playwright Tom Stoppard, they are pawns in a weighted chess match -for which they cannot even decipher the rules. Brian Murray, John Wood and Paul Hecht provide spirited, sophisticated acting...
...Shakespeare's Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Tom Stoppard's hapless heroes. Buffeted about in the maelstrom of emotions and events at Elsinore. they are pulled out of their niches to do they know not what, nor to what purpose. Actors John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht respond like finely tuned instruments to Stoppard's inciteful prose and Derek Goldby's insightful direction...
...audacity of visual technique fits perfectly with the straight-forwardness of the narrative style. The unflinching sincerity of director and writer (Sidney Howard, with assisst from Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald) transcends Margaret Mitchell's soap opera, giving Gone With the Wind the truly epic quality of the best films of John Ford. At the very least, it depicts the passage of time better than any other picture I've seen; we share with the characters the memory of scenes as if they had occurred 15 years before. Our sense of history is reinforced by the obvious visual deterioration from...
...that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state of joy and loving." This may explain the eight children who travel with the 32-member troupe, not all of whom are accounted for by the company's three married couples...