Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the supporting cast is not nota ble, the mechanics of production are. Un like Hamlet or Macbeth, which starts racing with the very first scene, Antony lacks pickup. But Director Michael Bent-hall, linking scene to scene with processional figures on a revolving stage, gives the play constant flow. Designer Purse's sets are good-looking and practical; Herbert Menges' music has genuine appeal...
...Macbeth, in the person of William Devlin, is still strutting on the Brattle stage. An interesting modern version, evenings...
...come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...
...Cambridge, the Old Vic's William Devlin stars in the Brattle Theatre's presentation of "Macbeth," an old English drama...
...Macbeth receives a modern touch in the Brattle Hall production with William Devlin in the title role and Ruth Ford as his lady...