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...Cambridge Drama Festival has announced that one of its productions this summer will be Macbeth, with Siobhan McKenna as Lady Macbeth. Jose Quintero will direct and Jason Robards, Jr. may play the title role. Miss McKenna and Quintero planted a mountain laurel yesterday, for the benefit of photographers, on the site of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center, where the Festival will present its season...
Miss McKenna will appear in at least one other play at the Center besides Macbeth. At a press conference following the tree-planting she said that she hoped the season would open with a comedy, adding that As You Like It and Aristophanes' Lysistrata have received consideration...
...Pick on Me?" The main trouble, retorted Callas, was that Bing had signed her to sing two performances of Traviata, on Feb. 13 and 17, between two performances of Macbeth on Feb. 5 and 21. "Macbeth is a very heavy opera. I have to build back to my heavy voice, and it takes a month. My voice is not an elevator, going up and down...
Ideally, the hope should be to develop a company in which every actor could do a creditable Hamlet tomorrow and every actress a Lady Macbeth the day after. The aim must be kept high if great results are to be achieved...
...quartet of plays deals, in a new symbolic way, with the bonds of friendship and blood. Basic to all four, more specifically, are an estrangement-remorse-reconciliation theme, first attempted (but ending differently) in King Lear, and the idea of grace, a more Christian grace than that found in Macbeth. Near the start of all four, a father loses a child through his own fault...