Word: huston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strasberg said he wanted to conclude with "a most moving experience." Where-upon he read the short article, 'The Sucess and Failure of a Role,' which the late Walter Huston contributed to the fascinating anthology Actors on Acting...
...Here Huston described his New York performances in the title role of Othello during the first weeks of 1937, and their reception. He regarded his opening night performance as the finest achievement of his whole career. "I never felt better on any stage that I did that night," he said. The next day the critics unanimously panned him because "I was not ferocious enough, and I did not rave and rant." Realizing this was his first critical and commercial flop in 13 years, he decided toward the end of the play's brief run to act the role...
...reading of Huston's remarks pointed up Strasberg's concern over "the lack of a trained audience." And it was particularly timely in view of Earle Hyman's current recreation of the same role at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut (which I discussed at some length in these pages two weeks...
...Broadway three or four years ago. Though I was not able to see it, I understand it was a wild and explosive interpretation. Since then Hyman has thought a great deal more about the part, and now performs it in a controlled crescendo. He has felt driven toward Huston's kind of "subdued conception." The difference is that Hyman accomplished in three years what took Huston three decades...
...couple of the New York critics this summer took exception to Hyman's new approach; they wanted him to writhe and blaze furiously. One of them, now the most influential critic, made the same criticism he had voiced about Huston's conception 20 years...