Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles' theaters contain more than revivals of New York shows, however. Various university organizations-most notably John Houseman's Theater Group at U.C.L.A.-present first-rate productions of dramatic classics. Elsewhere in the city, productions of As You Like It and Macbeth were on the boards last week. Most Los Angeles theaters are the small-capacity off-Broadway type (locally called "off Vine") that run smoothly on three-quarters of a shoestring and will try almost anything but a new play. Few make money, but some coin it. Two small L.A. theaters recently reported box-office receipts...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew in rotation, with G. & S.'s The Gondoliers on the side...
Waddling Exile. In between Kane and Kafka, Welles took two wives (Rita Hayworth and Incumbent Paula Mori), gained a couple of hundred pounds, and directed seven pictures. His wildly impressionistic Othello, and Macbeth in Scottish burr, were called moody masterpieces in Europe, but failed miserably in the U.S. Aside from brief bits of acting (most memorably in The Third Man and Compulsion), Welles did little more than perpetuate his public caricature. Smoking sequoia-sized cigars, he waddled like an exiled giant through Europe, looking gloomily for a future and nostalgically at the past...
...fringe benefits already include a show to train local school board members, a recent production of Macbeth for English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...
...began with a sweeping declaration: ''The word civilized is opposed to the word barbarous; the word cultured, first of all, to the word ignorant . . . Knowledge is the study of Rembrandt, Shakespeare or Monteverdi; culture is our emotion on seeing The Night Watch, a performance of Macbeth...