Word: langella
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Problems of heart transplants are dramatized in "The Choice," an original play with Melvyn Douglas, George Grizzard, Celia Johnson and Frank Langella...
Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center--Two interesting, if not great, productions--Lee J. Cobb in director Gerald Freedman's "King Lear" and Frank Langella and Anne Bancroft as the Shakespeares in William Gibson's new "Cry of Players." At the VIVIAN BEAUMONT, W. 65th...
...have a very bad marriage. She nags; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this dubious material, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-though one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help with her Bronx-housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
...marriage. She is always nagging; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this ill wedding, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-but one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help the play with her Bronx housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
Actually, Yerma is no-barren. It is her husband Juan (Frank Langella) who is sterile - and doesn't want any babies around the house anyway. An old crone offers her son as an inseminative agent, but Lorca cannot let Yerma commit adultery because he intends the play as a tragic stalemate between honor and instinct. Surrounded by women who take a sensual delight in their fecundity, poor Yerma is reduced to beating her breasts and moaning, "I feel two blows of a hammer here instead of my baby's mouth...