Word: poloniuses
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...satisfactory, mostly because their roles were not so thoroughly conceived. Eloise Watt, as Gertrude, adds a nice touch with her lustful perusals of Rosencrantz. However, she and her Claudius, played by Bill Strong, are too sweet to be scheming and too sincere to be ridiculous. Tony Cesare's Polonius is silly, rather than senile; his character lacks what the genuine figure of Polonius invariably exhibits, an exaggerated sense of his worth and of the importance of his actions. Fletcher Word plays Hamlet who seems neither intense nor melancholy. Liz Hollister, however, portrays Ophelia effectively both in her Shakespearean and comi...
...Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go," said Claudius as he sent Polonius to eavesdrop on Hamlet. The prince of petulance had his problems, not the least of which was that he was an excellent poet who could not keep his mouth shut. Compulsively putting the truth into unforgettable images and rhythms is indeed a form of madness that tyrants have always feared...
...Goldwaterite, and finally, an improbable shepherd of nearly all the major civil rights legislation of the '60s. Toward the end of his life-he died in 1969-it began to seem that Dirksen's most interesting achievement was himself: a rumpled travesty of Throttlebottom, Pekin, Ill., Polonius wreathed in consciously self-mocking fustian, a man at once shamelessly sentimental and uncommonly shrewd...
...dimensional approach is not all bad. Polonius (Mike Baker) is remarkably funny, playing all of those wonderful lines to the full. But Shakespeare did not create one-dimensional characters, Miller did. Shakespeare's people are complex, not easily explicable. There are conflicts in the play which Shakespeare never resolves. Miller has included the part of Claudius who kills his brother, but has ignored the part which cries "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven..." He has ignored the textual justifications for Hamlet's behavior, and tried to superimpose an interpretation of his own which is totally unaccounted...
...ACTORS have come hither, dear reader, and-as Polonius would have it-they're set on being the best actors in the world. Either for tragedy, comedy, historical, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. And all within the scope of one play, mind you. The play in question being Peter Raby's adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. And given that Raby renders the venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal...