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KING JOHN has never stood out among Shakespeare's histories. And among performances of Shakespeare, the Mather Drama Society's production does not stand out either. But strong performances by Jon Isham as Phillip the Bastard and Alexander Coxe Pearson as King John hold the play together. The major strengths in director Katherine Ashton's cast offset the weaknesses in Shakespeare's work to make this King John worth seeing...
...THIS JUNCTURE, though, Pearson and King John take over as the most interesting characters on stage. While King John struggles with his own conscience--and a lust for power so strong that he orders his young nephew killed--Pearson projects paranoia and insecurity with shifting glances and frowning brows. Although partially excusable in an overly defensive king, Pearson's excessive shouting is out of place in his otherwise subtle portrayal...
...accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade with China and ties to Cuba. Criticized for running a one-man show, "Dief the Chief was eventually defeated by Liberal Lester Pearson, partly because he refused to arm Canada's NATO force with U.S. atomic weapons. Elected to Commons for a record 13th time last May, he appeared on TV five days before his death, decrying the divisions in his country: "Suspicion, fear, all those things that deny unity are present...
Anderson still admires Pearson the man and the reporter, but not some of his tactics. "The accumulation of these tragedies, to which I was a direct contributor," Anderson says, raised a question: "Were these stories...worth the lives or sanity of people and the incalculable destruction wreaked upon their innocent families?" Confess Anderson; "There are seasons when it seems a close call." Muckrakers find themselves scorned by those Anderson calls "the tone setters of our profession." Having won a Pulitzer, as Pearson never did, Anderson now heads a successful journalistic cottage industry employing 17 reporters. He is seen five times...
Anderson's muckrating tale is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable means. Pearson was a Quaker, Anderson is a Mormon, but the Christianity that sustained them both often seems in their professional lives more evident in righteousness than in charity. It is harder to tell the black hats from the white hats when white hats become soiled...