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...Medea," a Greek tragedy, Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and the popular fairy tale "Cinderella" all opened last night in the basement of Adams House G-entry. All at the same time. All on the same stage...
McKellen, at one point, even does a passable imitation of himself. If his Romeo is perhaps too much a modern teenager, or his Macbeth more empurpled than it should be, there is illuminating humor in his rendering of Hamlet's advice to the players in the manner of a rather fey modern director giving notes to his company...
...CONTINENTS. For Hall, it has been a rough year on the roller coaster of notoriety, after triumphs in 1982 at the National (including Harold Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote...
everywhere. One man lay drenched in it-with only the movement of one eye showing that he was still alive-and the mattress beneath him was drenched too. One recalled Lady Macbeth's outburst of horror: "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just...
...century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios). Its swirl of fake radio messages about an impending invasion at Calais helped keep the entire German 15th Army pinned down 200 miles...