Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...displayed its own mediocrity and disorganization, a lesser-known art festival 400-odd miles to the north was preparing to put on a top-grade show. The newer exhibition is at Kassel, where the Brothers Grimm lived, located at the geographic heart of Germany, and it is called Dokumenta III...
There is no sense in joining the chorus of voices complaining that the Richard III of the play libels the historical model. The play's hero, destined to become Henry VII, is no more faithful to the laws of accurate portraiture. When art (even lesser art) and history collide, art very often wins out--and this is as it should...
...stage as tragedy, it would require performances in the title role and surrounding parts of such delicate adjustment and balance as I can only barely conceive. I have never seen or read of such a production (Olivier's did not come close). No--why not admit it?--Richard III, like Titus Andronicus, is not a tragedy but a melodrama. For the Elizabethans it fulfilled the function that "horror movies" do in our culture...
Laying aside pretensions to tragedy, the American Shakespeare Festival is now offering a Richard III of strong impact. The resulting bloodthirsty and at times stomach-turning melodrama, under Allen Fletcher's direction, provides one of the most intriguing shows in the Festival's history...
...bent on tragedy and will accept first-rate blood-and-guts melodrama, this Richard III...