Word: meador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Lewis, the master who returns unexpectedly, is respectable if slightly over-done. Judith Gilmartin, the pretty widow looking for a Spanish husband, performs with a coy grace. Bob LaCrosse is adequate for a small part; Leslie Buncher falls off his timing; and William Meador, the gaunt suspicious gamester, stumbles on his lines occasionally, and unfortunately calcifies a vital role...
Although director William Meador seems strongly interested in the psychology of Macbeth's progression from evil to evil, his concept of it is indecisive, and he has not avoided the danger of overemphasizing his effects. The present HDC production suffers seriously as a result. His idea of Macbeth's character seems unclear at the start of the play, and hence the subsequent interpretation is clouded and confusing...
...role, Andre Gregory suffers more from this seeming lack of orientation than from any failure in acting technique. His delivery is generally moving and expressive, and the mannerisms he has assumed for the part are quite acceptable. The heart of the trouble is the suggestion that neither he nor Meador is quite sure what is happening to Macbeth, or why, and as a result the audience cannot be deeply involved in his self-destruction...
John Poppy '57, president of the HDC, has announced that open casting for the play will being this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House, and continue through Monday. Woodruff Price '56 and Lucia Stein '57 will co-produce the play, and William Meador '58 will be the director. Donald Bourne of the Graduate School of Design will design the sets...
...were Ann Arensberg and Lucia Stein as elves. I suspect Wendy MacKenzie, although charming enough in the part of the bride, was partly responsible for the failure of clarity at the end of the play. Nevertheless, it came off pretty well, and Don Bourne's sets and Bill Meador's music added considerably to the production. These last two plays of the season provided a pleasant relief from the rigors of reading period and added two respectable feathers to the cap of the Workshop group...