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Latest addition to the LP catalogue is Brattle Theatre Classics, a series of readings from great plays which has just begun with "King Lear." On this new recording, William Devlin, who played Lear with such distinction here this winter, trumpets the major speeches of the old but unwise King. Members of the Brattle Company read around him to give an inkling of the plot. You may wonder who "Poor Tom" is, or how Gloucester lost his eyes, for such details are unexplained, but Devlin's Lear is all-important. The other characters only guide the course of his catastrophe...
...Draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks, draw you raseal . . .," Peter Temple '49, Brattle Hall's Kent in the current production of King Lear, shouted Thursday night...
...television venture, according to Brattle officials, is part of an "expansion program" for the theatre, which includes road trips for Brattle shows. The current play, "King Lear," intended for tour, has been held over in Cambridge because of the record-breaking crowds it has been drawing...
...apparently necessary to handle the different locales, made for a lot of infuriating noise. The attempt to cover the frequent scene-shifting by playing some of the transition scenes in from of the curtain was a bad mistake. I think it was a section of castle wall the obscured Lear's great line: "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!" A vast seething backdrop painted in red did extremely well by the supernatural element in "Lear...
Finally, the costuming was irritating Lear's robes were well chosen to decline in impressiveness with him, and the women's dresses were appropriate, but most of the men seemed to be wearing leather fish-scales of aprons, and many bore strange headgear. The royal crowns and coronets seemed more than usually cardboard, and the foot soldiers stood out above all others in the flaunting of some extraordinary creations that most resembled the kepis of the Foreign Legion...