Word: magloff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, is trying to catch the cock, and the goat and the cat intervene to keep him from doing so. David Moran portrayed the cock, relying entirely on his dancing. Wesley Skinner looked like a goat, although his movements were not as successful as Moran's. Paul Magloff--the crafty, drooling "Renard"--used both his elastic body and plastic face to achieve the work's most impressive performance. The four solo vocalists sang expressivley and tunefully, though Thomas Weber and Gregory Sandow enunciated poorly...
Director John Lithgow wisely did not sacrifice characterization to symbolism. The characters, except for the poet, wear masks which conventionalize them, but the masks are not identical. Lithgow's poet, played by Paul Magloff, was subtle and almost underplayed. He moves as in a trance. His face displays no feeling. His movements are constrained and simple, yet in his duets with the beasts he displays great tenderness. While the poet conveys feeling with only the slightest gestures, the townspeople express motion in exaggerated contortions...
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