Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon group does Henry VI, Part I as well as Lear, Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, and does them all with fluid skill. Rigorously Elizabethan in style, the company offers no intermissions and performs in a simulacrum of 17th century London's Fortune Theater. "This is a stepping-stone between the academic and professional theaters," says Bowmer. "We use Shakespeare because we think he's a damned good theater...
...some extent this paid off in Morris Carnovsky's 1963 Lear, but for the most part the American Stratford is still disappointingly inept. Someone named Tom Sawyer is playing Hamlet there this year. The poor fellow may very well know how to get a fence painted, but he certainly has no idea how to sit on one. Left alone on the stage for soliloquies, he is wooden, stiff-legged and ill at ease. His fencing lessons have resulted in a duel scene that might have been fought between Mrs. Warren Harding and the lady in Ohio. Considering the Gertrude...
...Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada to present two plays by other authors, but that is what is happening in Ontario, where Wycherley's The Country Wife opened early this week and Moliére's Le Bourgeoís Gentilhomme is already playing. King Lear and Richard II are playing too. John Colicos. who looks much like Paul Scofield in the role, is an able and imperial Lear in a production skillfully but somewhat sentimentally staged by Stratford's Artistic Director Michael Langham. The star of the summer, however, is William Hutt, 44, who is probably...
...life counterpart like Groton's Endicott Peabody, but Old Boys everywhere will nevertheless recognize the rector as a familiar enough type. Auchincloss may seem to have expended too much sound and fury over something so small in the universe as a prep school; a crazed old man like Lear (upon whom Prescott was obviously modeled) was at least a king. But Auchincloss writes in the manner of Henry James, finding great moral dilemmas in small events. Ever since James, novelists have delighted in exposing the ambiguities in the most high-minded behavior, and Prescott is the latest...
Director Maurice Breslow has chosen to make the old actor rather self-assertive, a tired braggard, who occasionally recognizes what a fool he is. To portray Svetlovidov this way, Ross would need a greater range to his voice than he has. When he recites lines from Hamlet or Lear, Ross must convince the audience that the Svetlovidov he is playing really was great once--as the benefit he has just received suggests--and in this he fails...