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This harsh, shrill, constantly-hammering quality in Brecht's writing has led Alex Horn, who directed, to impose upon his cast a degree of rough broadness in their playing that they cannot convincingly sustain. Ray Reinhardt plays Puntila with considerable authority (he can actually look like a dying deer while...
Nothing of the sort can be said for anyone else in the cast, though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his...
Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in...
Stanley Tackney does well as the news analyst who once said over the air, "Congratulations, President Dewey." Josephine Nichols, as his scatter-brained wife, would be fine if she didn't keep letting her voice rise to a shrill level. Kathern Shaw and Jeff Davis make an appealing pair of...
The play, as presented by the Brattle cast, is fairly well performed. There are, however, a few blemishes. The first act is extremely slow in places not due to the production but to the play itself. John Lasell, playing the part of a junior lieutenant, muffed a few key lines...