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David Warner's lame, stuttering Claudius is ironical, resilient, self-deprecatingly witty and wistfully sad as he realizes that even an Emperor cannot restore freedom to a people who no longer desire it. This is Playwright John Mortimer's staunch salute to Robert Graves' novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, but as drama it is a sloppy counterfeit...
...role has never been played more affectingly. As the older brother, Denis Quilley is a sportive charmer with an agile, mocking humor, a man of many-hued gifts, all blurred by drink. Broodingly, brilliantly, Ronald Pickup kindles a raging purpose in the tubercular frame of the younger brother, the playwright-to-be. To cap its triumph, the entire cast speaks American as if born to it, with a slight, finely inflected brogue that enhances the drama's keening Irish sorrow...
...every recent national convention, literary superstars were on hand to gather impressions, mostly for publication later in magazines. Norman Mailer refused to tell anyone what he thought of the proceedings for fear of compromising a forthcoming article in LIFE. Novelist William Styron and Playwright Arthur Miller, on assignment from Esquire, agreed that Miami Beach '72 would be harder to write about than Chicago '68, which Styron covered for the New York Review of Books and Miller attended as a delegate. Also observing for Esquire were Soviet Journalist Guenrikh Borovik, who felt "the world does not need this much...
...role makes Holmberg look good against the other two nincompoops. Stephen Benson's Norman isn't comically awkward, just awkward; to be interested in him at all as a character we'd have to see his writing, and Benson can't move well enough to compensate the playwright's thinness. Worst of all is Caria Berg's strident Sophie Rauschmeier, with a banshee voice and a great stone face that moves in clicned exaggerations when it does move...
Stupid Question. Most of all, at a time when the American playwright seems to be an endangered species, Papp is discovering that the authors are in fact there, but that eager, adventurous producers are not. "There are more new plays worthy of production than can be produced in the U.S.," he asserts. "I've got five theaters [in the downtown complex], and I don't have enough space to do the plays I could do in a season here." During this season he has been responsible for eleven new productions; because of his reputation, he is receiving...