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...which the sun doesn't dissolve into rain-is an ephemeral creature. And since David Boorstin's intelligent and suitably enchanting production of The Tempest has already come and gone (it played the Loeb Ex this past weekend), I am put in the unenviable position of sounding like a miser entangled in gloating recitation of secret joys and pleasures. But what other way is left us to recapture the moment lost? Shakespeare's Tempest, being full of such stuff as dreams are made on, obviously permits such retrospective consideration. And the self-assured direction and execution of this production make...
...zealotry, and an apostle of moderation. He regarded the extremist as society's sickest man. Each of his better plays is a kind of psychosocial profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite, a miser, a misanthrope. In Molière's view, such a man is as mad as a man who claims to be Napoleon; the only cure is a cascade of laughter and the bracing tonic of common sense...
Scrooge boasts Albert Finney in the title role of the flinty miser who learns the true meaning both of Christmas and his own life. In his first screen or stage appearance in a few years, he is drastically disappointing. Finney grumbles and hobbles through his part, employing mannerism instead of nuance. He scores now and again, as when he tipsily accepts another cup of the Milk of Human Kindness (yes, it's that kind of movie) from the Ghost of Christmas Present, but such isolated moments from an actor of his stature are slender fare indeed. Sir Alec Guinness...
...MISER. Robert Symonds plays Harpagon in this revival of Moliere's comedy at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. His tendency to overplay is precisely right for this petty monster...
...MISER. The Lincoln Center Repertory Company has staged a lively revival of Moliere's comedy. Robert Symonds brings Harpagon, the miserable mock hero of the play, to robust life...