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Director Declan Donnellan has a gimmick: all the characters are played by men, as in Shakespeare's day. Designer Nick Ormerod has built a pristine set -- white walls, with green streamers for the Forest of Arden. In themselves, these elements are neither radical nor necessarily helpful; every English public school has a tradition of same-sex actors, and every penny-pinching little theater company leaves the scenery and props to the audience's imagination. But here the ideas seem like masterstrokes. They strip away the academic barnacles that too often make an evening of Shakespeare feel like a final exam...
...attendant shepherds and fops have a whirly, burly charm, and the bucolic maids (notably William Cates' Phebe) suggest Benny Hill on his very best night. But even these performances are never mired in the wink-wink-nudge- nudge of condescension to either Shakespeare or the audience. As Donnellan and Ormerod proved in their version of Angels in America at the National Theatre, no play is so weighted down by metaphor or message that it cannot be made to sing and soar...
Married. Beatrice Sigrist. 58, widow of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.'s Founder Frederick Sigrist, mother of the jet set's nearly supersonic Bobo Sigrist; and Sir Berkeley Ormerod, 64, retired public relations chief of the British Information Services in the U.S.; she for the third time, he for the first; in London...
...made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath), and Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, 62, sometime professional officer, since 1945 the amiable and able director of public relations in Manhattan's British Information Services. Henceforth, Major Bill Ormerod will be Sir Berkeley...
...LEONARD ORMEROD North Miami Beach...