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...hype here: there are nearly 11 hours of buried treasures, most of them from the first half century of movies, all rescued and restored by nonprofit institutions. Among the finds in this handsome four-disc set are footage of Orson Welles' 1936 "Voodoo" Macbeth and Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador...
...could play drama or comedy on the screen, but it was on the stage that he made his legend. Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud delivered storied portrayals of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Richard II, and triumphed as a director as well. He was mentor, friend and equal to his fellow knight, Sir Alec Guinness...
...unfinished text that is speculated to have been born out of a collaboration between Shakespeare and renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Of all Shakesperean plays, Timon of Athens needs a strong directorial hand to adapt it for the stage. Chronologically, the play occupies the uncomfortable spot between King Lear and Macbeth and can be easily dismissed as the awkward transition in-between...
...This is undoubtedly a moral play, more so than either Lear or Macbeth, and it presents several complications. The immediate problem is the absence of a working text. The Shakesperean original, involving an anti-climactic number of secondary characters wondering in and out of the stage and one too many perorations from the newly misanthropic Timon, is clearly unsuitable for a student production. To this problem, director Matt Hudson found the simplest solution: he cut. The cast was reduced to about half its prescribed size, Timon's speeches were shortened or eliminated and the verbal exchanges between characters were reduced...
Reviews of the latest Broadway production of MACBETH, starring Frasier's Kelsey Grammer, were a tad caustic: one of many unamused critics called it a "stodgy oratorical exercise." It closed after 13 performances, which is, as it turns out, a long run compared to some other ignominious Broadway flops...