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...Though McDonough firmly announces this interpretive viewpoint in the program notes, he then utterly undermines it with a second bright idea. He sets the play in the backstage of a thirties burleslque theatre, and transplants that all-American theatrical style onto the Renaissance text...
...Broadcast: As the Ivy League Game of the Week, the contest will be telecast on the Public Broadcasting System (WOBH, Channel 2 in Boston) beginning at 1 p.m. Dick Galtiette, Upton Bell and Sean McDonough will call the contest. Radio station WHRB (93.5 AM) will carry the game live, Bob Gamere will handle WMRE's play-by-play, with former Harvard quarterback Mike Lynch providing color commentary WHRB's him Rosenthal and Ed Stiel will call the game for the student station...
...story itself inevitably dominates any production of King Lear, and the Theater Works performance succeeds best where it is most restrained, allowing the actors to give "unaccommodated" life to the text. Tim McDonough does admirably with the difficult title role he is particularly fine when mad. He never breaks character or lapses into monotony during his longer speeches. He does, however, raise his voice too often--blunting the effect of some of the later scenes-- and occasionally speaks too quickly to be easily understood...
...ASPECT of King Lear which the Theater Works production presents most clearly is Lear's struggle to distinguish between wisdom and folly, reality and insanity. Although that achievement belongs primarily to McDonough's Lear, it owes almost as much to the agility of Kevin Keragga's Fool. The Fool acts as Lear's gadfly, confronting him with harsh truths, but his actions and speech are so thoroughly inconsistent that neither Lear, nor the audience ever completely comprehends him. Keraga does a brilliant job of balancing flamboyance and melancholy, credibility and recklessness. His manner and movements, as well as his recitation...
...game will also be the first of nine Ivy contests broadcast over the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).' Dick Galiette will handle the play-by-play, Upton Bell the color commentary, and Sean McDonough the sideline reporting...