Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth your while to queue up for forth-coming productions of "Julius Caesar," due in a fortnight, and "Arms and the Man" expected early next month. Also on the schedule are Sheridan's "The Rivals," O'Neils's "Anna Christie," Ibsen's "A Doll House" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth," all of which augur a season of no small magnitude...
...equivalency, a person must pass five two-hour exams measuring his intelligence instead of his memory. The literature quiz does not expect him to describe Macbeth; it gives him a passage from the play, and asks questions to see how much of it he understands...
...much amused as I am moved." British Cinema Producer Gabriel Pascal (Caesar & Cleopatra, etc.) wanted Kaye to play Macbeth. The Metropolitan Opera's director, Edward Johnson, proclaimed Danny the perfect Figaro-if only he had an operatic voice...
...real tragedy or psychological depth, the melodrama seems cut from cardboard. Thérèse, a presumably passionate and strong-willed woman, seems anemic compared to her sister connivers at murder; she lacks the hard fascination of Ruth Snyder quite as much as the grand villainy of Lady Macbeth...
...costumes for the present production are Elizabethan, but simple, unlike the gilt edged robes that marred an otherwise stylized "Tempest," or the even more plushy ones of Maurice Evans' "Macbeth...