Word: morrises
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Morris Carnovsky is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Cyril Ritchard doubles as Oberon and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Maria Tucci plays the title role of Jean Anouilh's Antigone until Sept. 10. Macbeth joins the repertory July 25.
The chief conflict in the play remains that between Conscience and Compromise. Although Antigone and Creon both appear in the earlier part of the work, they confront each other face to face only in the second half--and this tug-of-war is the heart of the play. In this...
In April of 1967 Mr. Thomas D. Morris, Assistant Secretary of Defense, sent the following memorandum on the "Proposed Presbyterian Confession of 1967" to the Secretaries of the Military Departments:
The Shylock of the 1957 production was Morris Carnovsky. Now, a decade later, Carnovsky is Shylock again. His was a supreme portrayal now. Shylock is not the most difficult role Carnovsky has undertaken, but it is the one that he has completely fleshed out and raised to the level of...
We have before us, then a Shylock who is repeatedly called a dog. And this Shylock has indeed become a dog. He has, in fact, become top dog. The point, however, is that he is top dog among dogs (and bitches). If you do not like the idea of this...