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Brown won acclaim for her portrayal of Wilde,the brilliant playwright, essayist, and novelistwhose life she captured in her adaptation ofMichael MacLiammoir's play this past fall. Withstage props consisting of whiskey, cigarettes, anda callalily, Brown created an atmosphere that ,according to a review in the Independent, servedas "the perfect platform...
...Malaysian tin ore through your fingers. You can eat walleyed pike from Minnesota and see a chef from India baking bread in mud pots. In the calm oasis of the Irish pavilion, you can drink coffee primed with Irish whisky and listen on earphones to actors like Micheal MacLiammoir and Siobhan McKenna reading Yeats, Swift or Synge. In the Indonesian pavilion, you can look over the Indonesian girls that were personally selected by President Sukarno. There is even a portrait of a beautiful woman painted six years ago by Sukarno himself. Upstairs more girls dance to the gamelan music...
...Micheal MacLiammoir's Iago is properly evil, although his tendency to spout his lines rapidly is at times distressing. Suzanne Cloutier is decorative as Desdemona. Her part has been cut down so far as to make it impossible for her to present a whole person, but she attempts, with near-success, to achieve a realistic portrayal...
George Rose's booming and Falstaffian Dogberry was definitive. Hurd Hatfield was perfectly cast as the villainous Don John, and Micheal MacLiammoir was a laudable Don Pedro. In several of the other roles, especially female, the performers were not up to Gielgud's demands...
...John Gielgud, one of the world's most eminent actors, and Margaret Leighton will star as the combatants in wit, Benedick and Beatrice. Sir John will also direct the production, and the cast will feature the noted Irish actor, Michael MacLiammoir...