Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week all was quiet in Ribadelago. In the tavern men were playing cards. At the church Father Plácido Esteban-Gonzalez had just arrived on his motor scooter from the provincial capital of Zamora. An electrician named Rey was working late in his shop. Shortly after midnight the lights in the village flickered out. At the tavern, irritated cardplayers lit candles, went on with their game. Suddenly, a distant, muffled roar was heard. To woodcutters in the mountains, it sounded like a "great stampede." To one villager, the noise resembled "a continuous dynamite blast." Father Placido went...
Actually as well as metaphorically, this Twelfth Night is a composition in warm colors rather than bright ones. Desmond Heeley's permanent set, which does a great deal to determine the mood of the play, is done in browns and golds, never drab but always subdued...
...current incarnation, Twelfth Night takes place on and in front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in this environment, its air of almost-sombreness has the effect of bringing the low comedy scenes into closer accord with the rest of the play than Shakespeare probably intended...
...Jefford knows what she is doing; she has been well-trained in doing it; and she does it, on the whole, quite well. The extent to which this--and little more--can be said about nearly the whole company is an indication of the extent to which this Twelfth Night is a group effort. Set, costumes (also by Mr. Heeley), and music are more important to the success of the production than is usually the case. This success rests finally on the subtlety with which these elements, and the acting, were made to combine and to complement each other...
Henry V, which last night opened and closed its sold-out Boston engagement, emerged in Michael Benthall's production as a great big simple-minded heroic-comic pageant. Shakespeare is actually the least simpleminded of dramatists, and even this frankly jingoistic exercise in banner-waving is also a subtle, even ambiguous, study of kingship and the attributes required for it. The pep-rally ambience, however, is much more vividly dramatized, and probably tends by its nature to overshadow the "deeper" element. At any rate, the wooing scene was delightful in the Vic version, and the rest was at least pretty...