Word: pryce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fare better. As Enobarbus, Patrick Stewart conjures up the Queen's burnished barge, and her beauty that age cannot wither, in the tone of a man who is as besotted with Cleopatra as Antony himself. Jonathan Pryce's Octavius Caesar is fascinating for its subtlety: he is a youthful ruler of sensitive and cunning intelligence. Howard fills the role of Antony, which is something like filling the sails of a galleon. His willful ness, his rages, sarcasm, generosity and reluctant self-knowledge are all here. When Antony's defeats are rushing headlong at him, Howard conveys...
...audition judge, Bert Challenor (Rex Robbins), holds the opposite view: "Any good comedian can lead an audience by the nose. But only in the direction they're going. And that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenor's advice win. The boy (Jonathan Pryce) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two effigies of the upper middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, but Pryce's caustic honesty and formidable skill in playing the role mark a Broadway debut that is electric with life...