Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the O. Henryesque twists would stir an audience much if Sada Thompson was not a masterly actress. Some 42 years ago, she was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and her apprenticeship has included years of regional repertory work, doing lead parts in The Three Sisters, Macbeth, The Rose Tattoo and plays of like caliber. Two seasons ago she won an award as best off-Broadway actress of the year, playing the bitter, slatternly mother in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...
...gnawing darkness, his figures acquired a mysterious, haunting irrationality. Sometimes the flow of light actually contradicts the muscles and skin that Caravaggio studied with such care. The final effect is not, for this reason, "realist" at all, but the impact remains. It is the violent blackness of Macbeth...
...high costs of the New Jersey resort have not slowed Hefner down. His company started a music-publishing and phonograph-record division last month. Hefner has also plowed more than $3,000,000 into financing Director Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth, and is looking for other movies to bankroll. Next year Playboy will go international, starting European editions in French, Italian and German under the guidance of Playboy executive and long-TIME Staffer Michael Demarest. About two-thirds of the material and most of the nudes will be from the U.S. Playboy, although Hefner says that...
...Suburban Lady Macbeth." In the earlier, social plays, Ibsen's drama was the drama of contemporary issues: the characters are living ideas. Dr. Stock-mann, the idealist who heroically fights to improve his community in An Enemy of the People, reappears in The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle, a pre-Freudian busybody who demonstrates that helping people face their problems is often just a bland way of destroying them. Similarly, in Hedda Gabler, Nora, the relatively innocent victim of male chauvinism in A Doll's House, is re-examined as Hedda, a modern woman whose frustrated need...
Othello needs to be retrieved even more than it needs to be revived. Of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, which include Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, Othello has become increasingly less accessible to modern audiences and actors. There are several reasons for this. To the contemporary playgoer, the Moor's marital jealousy is more amazing than it is convincing, and the evidence of the telltale handkerchief seems unbelievably flimsy. Today's audiences are also more interested in lago's psychologically obscure malignity than in Othello's open nature and loftiness of soul...