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...Alec McCowen, British actor, on how he settled on the subject of his prizewinning one-man stage presentation, The Gospel According to St. Mark: "This was the greatest script I had ever found...
...Mark's Gospel. Gospel means good news, and rarely has the word more compellingly been made flesh than in Alec McCowen's incomparable rendering of the King James text. The actor will play a return engagement in 1979. Mark it well...
...staging of Bible material, like Alec McCowen's recital of the Gospel of St. Mark [Sept. 18], can have unexpected results. An actor had delivered the 23rd Psalm before an enthralled audience. Days later he heard an old rector read it in church. "The Lord is my Shepherd ..." After the service he grasped the rector's hand with the words, "Sir, I know the Psalm, but you know the Shepherd...
...Mark's Gospel McCowen has found a vehicle perfectly suited to his range. For the material most resembles an extended song cycle. Nuance, focus and miniaturized drama are the order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled...
Gospel, of course, means good news-which these plans certainly are for the theatergoers in both countries. As delivered by McCowen, Mark is a triumph of the human voice and the English language. - Christopher Porterfield