Word: nicoll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such odd, frivolous moments make The Wilby Conspiracy a surprisingly breezy diversion. The fugitive pair are pursued by a racist cop (played with excellent wit by Nicol Williamson). A reasonable level of satire is maintained throughout, even while everyone clowns...
...Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style (a 1968 TV revival with Nicol Williamson and George Segal was two hours of dead air). Matters have reversed themselves since Steinbeck's day, when words were the masters of the stage. Today, as Conway and Jones prove, it is the singer, not the song...
UNCLE VANYA. George C. Scott, Julie Christie and Nicol Williamson helped make this the crowning dramatic event of the year. The splendid cast was obviously inspired by the brilliant direction of Mike Nichols and the irreluctable genius of Anton Chekhov...
...NICOL WILLIAMSON'S LATE SHOW. An afterhours gig with the matchless Scot singing the blues and lighting up the night with Eliot, Kipling and Beckett...
...that fun and literacy can coexist is a proposition that U.S. theater audiences generally seem to view with unveiled skepticism. Many Americans regard a cultural evening as a therapeutic penance roughly comparable to a dose of cod-liver oil. All such gentry will be dazzled, enlightened and elated by Nicol Williamson's Late Show. Williamson looks like a kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening...