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...Festival debuts of Paul Hecht and Salome Jens fall short of one's hopes, the same cannot be said of the debut here of Philip Kerr, who plays Octavius in both Caesar and Antony. His is classical acting of the first order. His three scenes as a 20-year-old in Caesar are enough to indicate his cool command of his craft. In Antony he has 13 scenes as the young triumvir who emerges victorious and will soon become Emperor Augustus. Kerr's acorn grows into a strong...
...small roles I much admire the cool and calculating young Octavius of Philip Kerr, and the oily Decius of John Tillinger. Some of the rest need work, including Bryan Utman as the boy-servant Lucius (a role that Shakespeare had to invent instead of taking over from Plutarch, and was so beautifully done on this stage six years ago by Alan Howard). Utman is not helped at all by the ugly and fussy song composed for him by John Morris...
There are both long and short retorts to this conception of the university. A short answer is that only the belligerently naive can still conceive of the university as a locus of disinterested truth. As Clark Kerr (cited in Stephan Leibfried's excellent book, Die angepasste Universitat...
...links are put together, they should form a logical chain. Lucille Fletcher (Sorry, Wrong Number) fails to keep that compact with the audience. Most of Night Watch seems like a rehash of Gaslight, with a neurasthenic wife being driven totally batty by her calculating husband and his mistress (Elaine Kerr). An unprepared-for ending quite reverses this premise. As the lady with frayed nerve ends, Joan Hackett is convincingly twitchy, but she overworks the part to camouflage how underwritten the play is. In superior forms of suspense, the audience is tipped to what the characters do not know. In inferior...
Finally, someone brings up Indians, the play Scott opens with tonight. The woman sitting next to him, who is directing at the Loeb Ex, asks why the play folded on Broadway. Her tone seems to repeat Walter Kerr's dictum that good plays never fold, or even get bad reviews...