Word: othello
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Colicos' accomplishment is especially welcome, for it illustrates what can be done by long and dedicated hard work without any pronounced help from lady luck. In the early seasons of the Festival, Colicos was just one of the many actors doing yeoman service in small parts. From Lodovico in Othello, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice, and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Colicos was advanced to the important supporting roles of Laertes in Hamlet and Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream. Then, in the final offering of the 1958 season, he was entrusted with the central role...
...clearly has solid technical competence, but her work shows an excessively smooth slickness that I find somewhat distasteful. Her subjects are Mary McLeod Bethune (1876-1955), celebrated educator and social worker; Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), the developer of blood plasma; Paul Robeson in his role as Othello; and Thurgood Marshall, who has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...DIEGO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, in its 18th year, will present Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well and Othello, from a replica of the 16th century Globe Theater, until Sept. 10. Musicians, tumblers, dancers and madrigal singers entertain before each performance...
Born. To Maggie Smith, 32, ebullient, rusty-haired member of London's National Theater Company (Desdemona to Sir Laurence Olivier's Othello) and film actress (The V.I.P.s), and Fellow Company Actor Robert Stephens, 36, versatile screen performer (Morgan!): their first child, a 7½lb. boy named Christopher, whose premature arrival (by caesarean section) occasioned the announcement that the couple was married (she for the first time, he for the second) secretly last month; in London...
...write the scene myself. I'm glad I used Shakespeare; it allowed me, an inexperienced playwright, to shape things in the play." Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Casear provide matrices for most of MacBird's episodes, and supply the better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast...