Word: macbeth
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...Macbeth did not strikingly differ as a production from the Old Vic's competent, rather than brilliant, Richard II and Romeo and Juliet. But it so much more powerfully reverberated as a play as to offer greater rewards. And much of its strength lay in what had been the earlier productions' weakness-the title roles: despite limitations, Macbeth and his lady made a striking pair...
...competent Macbeth may be expected to convey the rushing theater, the rising drama of the first three acts and the intense poetry of almost all the play. The Old Vic did both things and something more. It communicated what is so ominous, so Oedipus-like, in the prophecies that by seeming to shield Macbeth from Nemesis only speed him toward it. And it caught the play's feudal, barbaric, night-lighted atmosphere, the sense of a haunted world no less than a haunted...
...Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida...
...particularly good, but none is bad. Most of the acting is quite adequate. Edith Adams and Peter Palmer fill the leads pleasantly, while Howard St. John's Bullmoose and Stubby Kaye's Marryin' Sam are amusing and refreshing. Although she shows traces of Ethel Merman and a witch from Macbeth, Charlotte Ray proves a good choice for Mammy Yokum. Pappy's role is properly squeaked by J. E. Marks...
...from Elizabethan period to the present. Ticknor has luscious G-G octave, which he handles expertly, but lower notes as yet weak and unfocused. Soprano not up to her usual standard. Her best singing was fittingly in the premiere of the "Glamis thou art" aria from a new opera Macbeth by Edward Goldman, who was present; an aptly melodramatic setting, with particularly effective use of low notes. Singers joined at end for pair of the too rarely heard Schumann duets and a scene from Carmen. Laurence Berman the able accompanist on an out-of-tune piano...