Word: malvolio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minus Malvolio, Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, the old plot slides surprisingly well into the with-it world. Viola's whim of dressing in men's clothes, inexplicable in the original, fits in quite naturally with the mod look; she and her brother Sebastian wear identical outfits of zippered yellow tunics and rust trousers, and of course their moptops are the same length. The updated plot involves a singing group known as the Apocalypse, one member of which has just been drafted. Viola, calling herself Charlie, fills in for him; when Orsino, here known as Orson, feels...
Carol Swanger as Olivia would probably be charming in a straight production; here she is an actress with almost no one to speak to. David Scondras as Malvolio (his hair is disarranged) is a natural comic, but he is a bedraggled sad sack, and Malvolio is not. Robert MacDonald might be able to act if he didn't have to concentrate on sounding as though he were being strangled. Terry Lautz as the fool Feste sings with the mysteriously sweet voice one associates with revelations by deep mountain pools...
...wife of the hotel manager is not the frowzy pile of heavy flesh she seems, for there was a time when she was served up nude on a silver platter. Flea is a wildly funny play--but not a kind one. Above the laughter you can sometimes hear Malvolio crying for help in his dark cell...
...directed by Frank Hauser, the production's most consistence and all-of-a-piece performance is Josef Sommer's as Malvolio, who with the Clown constitute the fulcrum upon which the play seesawa. This portrayal is well-spoken and properly starchy, comical without intending to be, always controlled and never overdone. Sommer's handling of the scene where he reads the forged letter, which he reads the forged letter, which he amusingly first employs as a fan, works admirably except that, when he quotes, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve," he ought to spin around in ridiculous compliance...
...puritanical and humorless Malvolio, the square peg in the play's round hole, wears a long black gown and sports a moustache and goatee, looking for all the world as though he had just been sitting for a sober portrait by Van Dyck or Rembrandt. Feste the Clown is dressed in pink and rose, and makes use of hand-pup-sets. The earnest Viola first appears is dark gold; but when she disguises herself as the page Cesario, both she and her twin brother Sebatian (each believing the other drowned) are clothed in white-ruffed cerulean, exuding the purity...