Word: kukachin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Wayne looks admirably like the 75-year old Kublai Khan, but he often does not act like one; I could not persuade myself that the man I was looking at was the man I was listening to. Zohra Lampert shows us an appealing Princess Kukachin, love-smitten yet unrequited; but she overexerts. She needs more simplicity, purity, fragility, and musicality...
...performance I shall longest cherish is Joseph Wiseman's portrayal of the aged Chinese sage Chu-Yin. One senses an inexhaustible profundity beneath his face and eyes. His bearing; his gestures, his gait all strike unfailingly true. He is even careful to read the letter from Kukachin properly from right to left and top to bottom. If Quintero would allow him to forsake the occasional cracking falsettos in his diction, he would be perfect. Still, such subtle and rounded playing is rare on any stage. This man is every inch...
Thanks to Beni Montresor, a sumptuous array of Oriental costumes dazzles the eye in scene after scene until the final mourning conclave at Kukachin's catafalque, where all are imposingly clothed in a uniform white (for white rather than black is the funeral color in China...