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Mamet was clever to juxtapose these two plays: one drama answers the dilemmas of the other in a very sober and natural way, and George and Emil (Jerry Gershman and Ted Kazanoff) interact like a violin duet, weaving the problems of the evening and life into some simple sense...
...actors themselves were a pretty dreary lot with the exception of that brilliant clown Paul Benedict and the more-Aryan-than-Thou Larry Bryggman. Jo Lane was tedious in the virtuoso role of "The Jewish Wife" and Ted Kazanoff inadequate as the perplexed Judge in "Quest for Justice." Granted it was opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior...
...others, Theodore Kazanoff is quite wonderfully snarling and self-contained as Bloody Five, and Maggie Fiskind, old trouper, swaggers and struts well enough as long as she doesn't have to sing...
...introduces the play chral. As for the rest, Jane Quigley's nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids at home...
...Theodore Kazanoff, the melancholic Jaques, is, if anything too good for his part. Mr. Kazanoff finds it difficult to remain sufficiently four, and with his evident acting skill be often unconsciously upstages other actors, notably Peter Gesell who makes Touchstone little more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean...