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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Spoken Word, 3 LPs) gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half...
...personae themselves, the laurels go to Michael MacLiammoir for his superb portrayal of the traitor Iago, whose evil is somehow intensified by two wisps of chin whiskers. Robert Coote is an unusually funny Roderigo. Welles, with his wide-range voice, is more than competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant...
...Says "No!" (by Denis Johnston; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Micheál MacLiammoir) who is accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings of a decadent...