Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bash in the face for his flippancy. When the ensuing brawl ended, he turned to spirited Actress Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 38, one of the group, and protested, "You scratched me." Quick to pick up a cue, Siobhan studied her hands with the care of a Lady Macbeth, then held them high and blared, "These are Irish hands, and they are clean." Cook was unmoved. "This is a British face," said he, dabbing gingerly at a cut mouth, "and it's bleeding...
...Augustan elegance of The Movement has been challenged in recent years by a hearty, animalistic poet named Ted Hughes, and by the "Teddy-bards" who call themselves The Group (Philip Hobsbaum, Edward Lucie-Smith, George Macbeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove) and declare their dedication to a more accidental poetry, "straggly, diffuse, full of not obviously related particulars, beginning anyhow and seeming to end when the poet becomes naturally tired." Typically, The Group writes about a giggling secretary with "beard-rash that twinkles on my thighs," about an executive with breath "rank and vicious, like menstrual blood," about teeth full...
Fair Lady. The Old Vic's Macbeth is less successful largely because Actor John Clements, as the thane who would be king, interprets the role in a cloppish manner that might be described as early Kirk Douglas. Disconcertingly, he even looks like Kirk Douglas, but with red hair. And his "Tomorrow and tomorrow" creeps at a petty pace. But the production is redeemed by Barbara Jefford...
Instead of the usual gaunt crone with nothing left in her face except character, this Lady Macbeth is young. She has sex, a hard jaw and a soft body with a surging bosom that she proffers without a downward glance. Her lust-at the moment, for power-is for once understandable to the masses and not just to the senior staff members at Menninger...
...from the paralyzed, tableau style of Douglas Scale's direction. In the end, Saint Joan is the least remarkable of the Old Vic's productions, but it is paradoxically the outstanding one of the lot. For Shakespeare's poetry cannot fully conceal the gaping flaws in Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Saint Joan is, in purely dramatic terms, the best of the three plays...