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...dramatic groups, independent of the University, will produce Desire Under The Elms and King Lear in the spring term of this year. The Independent Players will present O'Neill's play in the Pi Eta theater in late March, and John Eyre '58, will produce "King Lear" sometime in April...
Perhaps poets like T. S. Eliot (whose cat Macavity was a being of singular depravity) or those who are as sensible as Dr. Johnson (he had a cat called Hodge and he fed it oysters) or as mad as Edward Lear (who had a cat called Foss which resembled an owl) should be permitted to write about cats. A cartoonist like the late great Herriman, whose Krazy Kat spoke a wild, weird kind of New York Yiddish in Coconino County, Ariz., also belongs in this noble company. Not so Thomasina. Cats may be useful animals to have around any house...
...premiere of all was Prince of the Pagodas (TIME, Jan. 14) by John Cranko, with music by Benjamin Britten (his first ballet score). Choreographer Cranko's splintered story had in it recurrent themes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, plus snatches of court intrigue reminiscent of King Lear viewed through the wrong end of the telescope. The stage was roiled by gaudy dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite all that the ballet did not get across its tale of a rejected princess (Ballerina Beriosova) and a prince who has been transformed into a salamander, Composer...
Next year's three plays are evidently to be chosen from these five: Hamlet, King Lear, Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night. How about Hyman as Hamlet, Carnovsky as Lear, and Richard Waring as Malvolio...
Since an actor has his lines furnished to him, just what does he create? Strasberg answered, "An actor creates character; he creates a new human being." From the 18th century he cited the example of David Garrick's interpretation of King Lear, in which Garrick "showed for the first time the whole process though which a person actually goes insane." And from the 19th century he mentioned Edmund Kean's conception of Shylock as an Italian Jew only 38 years old, and said he wished somebody else would dare to try this approach sometime...