Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jose Limon and company offered Barren Sceptre, a ballet treatise (music by Gunther Schuller) on the complicated family life of the Macbeths. The lights had scarcely come up on Macbeth, dressed entirely in black, when a pair of lavender arms sprouted from his shoulders, and presently Lady Macbeth slithered into view. For much of the rest of the piece the two swooped about the stage in convulsive frenzies, occasionally coming together like wrestlers grappling for a hold...
...whole generation of operagoers saw in Warren's burly figure (5 ft. 11 in., 200 lbs.) and big, "burnished voice the natural embodiment of opera's great villains-the grandly tormented Macbeth, the insinuatingly oily hunchback Rigoletto, the ravening Count di Luna of Trovatore. But he was also wonderfully effective in roles that called for massive dignity and restraint-Germont in Traviata, the title role in Simon Boccanegra. What Warren lacked in natural acting ability he more than made up with his remarkable and splendidly controlled voice; it had impressive size, fine texture and immense range. Warren even...
...writer may be a True Story fictioneer or the adman who coined the phrase, "Ocean-Combed Percales" ("Can the ocean comb anything?"). If the writer is Shakespeare, she wants to know precisely and specifically how the reader is made to feel, for instance, the evil in Lady Macbeth. If the writer is a student, she wants him to say precisely what he feels. "Everything goes back to this general aim: to make students more effective as human beings...
...since the 11th century, when its owner, Macbeth, murdered King Duncan in his sleep, had there been such anguish at stately Glamis Castle in the chilly hills of Scotland. A fire broke out in an uninhabited wing, was extinguished by the local fire department before it engulfed the cozy apartments where Queen Elizabeth once romped, Princess Margaret was born, and the Queen Mother's family have lived for some 600 years. The Earl of Strathmore, the castle's present guardian, tried to brave the flames to rescue his Labrador puppy, then thought better...
Miss McKenna, who has had a long association with the Cambridge Drama Festival, played the title role of St. Joan in the summer of '56, and the part of Lady Macbeth last season. On Broadway she has starred in The Rope Dancers and The Chalf Garden...