Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST OF MRS. LINCOLN...
...effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly of the unsettling idea that Queen Victoria was really Helen Hayes and the Great Emancipator was really Ray mond Massey. If anyone manages to remember The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, it will be with the conviction that Mary Todd Lincoln was really Julie Harris...
...BOAC. Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...
Though Blake will be 90 in February, he played in Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week as though he were a youthful 70. Prancing out on only slightly creaky legs, he clasped his hands over his head like a boxing champ, then scurried for the security of the piano bench. There he launched energetically into his own Troublesome Ivories, which turned out not to be troublesome at all. At the end of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues, Blake set off a series of feathery right-hand twirls up the scale that must have been what was originally meant...
...life. Thus it is fitting that three old playlets of his-Act Without Words (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961)-and one new one, Not I, are currently on view at the Forum, little sister to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Thanks to a fiscally inept board of directors, the Forum is drawing its last foreseeable breath with the Beckett quartet...