Word: lacey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, The Boston Shakespeare Company's production of Two Gentlemen falls headlong into the traps set by the flawed script. If many of Shakespeare's works invite reinterpretation, this one almost demands it. However, director William Lacey opts for a traditional construction of the script, playing much of it merely for laughs, and thus fails to adequately explore the darker side of the comedy or compensate for its flaws...
...other clown, Speed, played by Paul Dunn, is not so funny. Dunn speaks Shakespeare's prose like an AM radio announcer reading a Datsun ad. What is worse, Lacey has him stand at all times with his weight on one leg and the other knee thrust out at a right angle. Every line or so he shifts his weight. The effect becomes very distracting, and makes Dunn look like he needs a trip to the john...
...howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism. Lacey apparently decided to cast continuity aside and go for a big, bargain-rate laugh with an expendable character...
This unlikely duo embark on a series of picaresque adventures that often involve the colonel's mistress Marianne, appealingly played by Florence Lacey. The score is as romantic as candlelight and wine, and the dances are robust in folk flavor. One waltz-like number between Jacobowsky and the colonel (You I Like) is a touching ode to friendship...
...show the judge (he hadn't); and assumed Farber needed a conviction in the murder case to make the book a success (Farber had turned down a movie offer because it seemed premised on a guilty verdict). Farber "has it in his power, perhaps," said Federal Judge Frederick Lacey, to get the doctor acquitted; yet if he does, "the book goes down the drain. . . This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege when in fact he was standing on an altar of greed...