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...therefore a real coup for Coe to entice Plummer (whose Macbeth he directed years ago) back to the AST after a 26-year absence. While the historical Henry V ascended the throne at 26, Plummer is today roughly twice that age (51 or 53, depending on your source). It would be idle to expect him to recapture that youth for which the French dauphin insults Henry with a present of tennis balls. With more than a dozen important Shakespearean parts under his belt, not to mention other major classical roles. Plummer remains at the height of his phenomenal vocal control...
...individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence matured the R.S.C." That double maturity led actor and director to a 1977 London production of Macbeth, in which McKellen seemed to cut himself wide open with daggers of the mind. The production was regarded as definitive and won McKellen one of his three consecutive Society of West End Theater Awards...
...years. Relit this season under the overall command of Richmond Crinkley the Vivian Beaumont is gambling on name-brand appeal involving such diverse talents as Woody Allen, Edward Albee and Ellis Rabb. One of the group, Sarah Caldwell. best known for staging operas, makes her Broadway directorial debut with Macbeth. While this production may not kindle a blaze of excitement it is engaging enough to pose no threat of killing off the Beaumont...
...power of lust. Her casting emphasizes the second even more than the first. Rarely have two actors so young and so full of animal magnetism played the two key roles Philip Anglim, best known for his work as John Merrick in The Elephant Man brings to his Macbeth the boundless energy of a fledgling Henry V. The shapely Maureen Anderman makes Lady Macbeth a hot-blooded sex symbol. One can visualize the pair being written up in the gossip columns as smart society's latest darlings and very much on the rise...
This sort of approach does have its drawbacks. The desolating pathos of madness is missing from Anderman's mad scene. Nothing in Anglim's countenance suggests that he has "supp'd full with horrors " But the political core of the play remains intact. Macbeth is a politician's tragedy. It is full of the cagey schemes and ruthless deeds by which men seek to attain and hold power, and of the cruel downfall which they court...