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...King is played by David Ritten-house '64, and his companions by John Ross, Harry Smith '65 and Richard Monette. Barbara Jean Friend plays the Princess, Rosalind John, Laura Esterman '66, and Mcdelon Hambro her ladies-in-waiting
There's more loving here than even a Saroyan fan can stand. "Rosey's my daughter," muses the hero, "and Van's my son and Laura's their mother so loving them is easy. So I love everybody else, too. I love the dead, I love them especially. But not so much as I love the unborn." And most wondrous of all, not so much as he loves "the unborn who are never going to be born." But how about the reader who's never going to read it? He'll take more love...
...Smith's Agamemnon and Nicholas Pyle's Aegisthus provide fine support for Miss Tolentino, but the only character not overshadowed by her is Cassandra. Laura Esterman's tormented writhing and her cries of anguish are immensely moving; later she reappears as a quieter but equally impressive Electra...
Carlton Colyer plays Tom (he resembles Miss Field so strikingly that I thought for a while he was her real son) and is convincing both in his tenderness toward Laura and his angry frustration with enslaving responsibilities. I quarrel only with his reading of the narrative passages which open and close the play. These are certainly some of Williams's most beautiful lines, but they sound false when Tom puffs so suavely on his cigarette and speaks them so flatly. Mr. Colyer is trying to be "natural"; I would have him let the lines ring...
...face of Tom Keena (playing Jim) skillfully combines elements of the smooth seducer and the half-hearted social-worker as he shows his studied concern with Laura's small tragedy...