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...famous acting couple-Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault-paid their first visit to Broadway. Offering chefs d'oeuvres variés-Shakespeare, Marivaux, Molière-as well as novelties and knickknacks, they particularly scored with their lighter, wittier, most Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns (Salacrou, Giraudoux...
...difficult to imagine any performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount of dignity, and Rex Ingram makes a beautifully fearsome and pathetic Pozzo. As for Lucky, the part demands a pantomimist, and in Geoffrey Holder it has found a master of this form. Herbert Berghof, who also directed the original production, molded the four performances into a superbly balanced whole, and accomplished his job with imagination and no little daring. The merits of Samuel Beckett's contribution to the evening...
...Caesar: "A gifted dialectician, a truly artistic pantomimist and a master of timing ... He is a technically consummate artist...
This season, up to its eaves in work, the theater will put on 18 shows, ranging from French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau (TIME, Oct. 3) to a series of plays for new directors. Producers Hambleton and Houghton dream of making the Phoenix the most productive theater in the U.S. and "a larger than life, truly theatrical experience fortified by language that sings...
Unknown and unheralded in the U.S., French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, 32, opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...