Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webber's sweet tenor voice suits the usually many lyrics in Gondoliers; through he may not be quite up to the antics of his neighbors in Barataria, he makes their antics tolerable to listen to. If Martin is Lear the mad, Webber is Hamlet the brooding...
Permanent Resident. Directed by Stuart Vaughan, 38, who ran Manhattan's old Phoenix rep company for five seasons and earlier spent four as artistic director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle company opened with a stern and deliberate production of Lear, followed a night later by a bizarre and romping turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady...
...series of public appearances (he once hired Carnegie Hall for himself) in which he could be heard advocating better boxing, better orgasms, bullfights in Central Park, and other items of surrealistic irresponsibility. But he is a fearless performer, a lively controversialist and handles heavy cultural names like King Lear, Dostoevsky, Freud, Sartre like a demented, butter-fingered juggler...
...Loeb's mainstage, those teaching classes and tutorial, and those in the stacks researching his book. He seems to have done it. Besides teaching the second half of English 125, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Seltzer is supervising the Quadricentennial program, will direct Julius Caesar, act in King Lear, and is writing a book on the styles of Elizabethan acting...
...important test of the plan's feasibility may be this spring's experiment at the Loeb, which will combine lectures with regular rehearsals in staging fall-scale productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar, as well as concert readings of four plays by Christopher Marlowe. Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English and acting director of the Loeb, said he would want to see how the experiment worked out before making any formal proposal to give academic credit for a drama ocurse...