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...directed by Mike Nichols. An arid, aging retired professor, Serebryakov (Barnard Hughes) returns to the family estate with his young wife Elena (Julie Christie). The visit is a catalytic agent that exposes the alternately tragic and comic tensions of unrequited loves and lives. The caustically self-pitying Uncle Vanya (Nicol Williamson), who has worked the estate along with his niece Sonya (Elizabeth Wilson), realizes that he has sacrificed his life in the service of a pompous academic fraud. The mute adoration he offers Elena bores and annoys...
...characters' bruised hearts never blurred the amused clinical eye he focuses on their petty, self-deluding foibles. Chekhov frowned on directors who made his plays too glum and autumnal, and Nichols, with his agile comic flair, has certainly avoided doing that. He gets marvelous assistance from Nicol Williamson, whose Vanya is compacted with a mischievous, sardonic, self-mocking wit that not only defines his own character, but also makes a comment on the situation of everyone in the play...
Hamlet. (1969) PBS opens its new "Humanities Film Forum" series with director Tony Richardson's cinematic adaptation of his London stage production of the Shakespearian tragedy. Nicol Williamson stars as the Prince of Denmark, portraying Hamlet as an anti-hero in a markedly modern interpretation of the role. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...also the most mesmeric anti-hero to grip the Anglo-American stage since Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence. The irony is that such anti-heroes require heroic performances from the actors who play them. Nicol Williamson erupted volcanically in Inadmissible, and Alan Bates (TIME, Nov. 6) is a flood tide of brilliance in Butley. The two plays and the two characters have a good deal in common. One feels that if Maitland and Butley could harness their energy and alter the direction of their venomous wit, they could put their lives straight in no time...
Donald Pleasence, as an Israeli security operative, wants Bruce to inform on his friend. Bruce's fellow university students, who appear to be mixing archaeology with target practice in the desert, want him to use Raschid to ar range a palaver with the Arabs. Nicol Williamson, as one of Bruce's teachers, warns him of the dangers of involvement. Whether Williamson encourages his students' books-and-bullets curriculum or merely abides it is never clear...