Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playing Macbeth in Pittsburgh, Maurice Evans could hardly get through his love scenes with Judith Anderson against the whistling and giggling of schoolchildren in the audience. At intermission, he stepped before the curtain, asked all who were seeing a play for the first time to raise their hands. Up went hundreds. Said Evans: "I thought so," then pleaded good-naturedly with the kids for a break...
When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter. But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen...
...Macbeth (TIME, Nov. 24). Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson and Shakespeare...
Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
...different, and on the whole far better, is the Lady Macbeth of Judith Anderson (Family Portrait, the Gielgud Hamlet). A characterization, not a recital, its power in the earlier scenes is flawed by overacting, but steadily improves, leaps the last and highest hurdle magnificently. In the sleepwalking scene, Actress Anderson, with her sick, half-strangled voice, her tottering, sleep-locked footsteps, above all in the terrifying movement of her "bloody" hands, really conveys the ruin of a once dauntless and unflinching nature...