Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That the Poets' Theater does not master this difficulty in its production of Purgatory and The Player Queen is no discredit. Both plays are well staged, and the innate beauty of the pieces themselves make the venture worthwhile...
...played by the Poet's group, Purgatory is static and lacks the contrasts it should have. It seems two-dimensional beside the rich, flowing whimsy of The Player Queen. Given the role of Septimns, a drunken poet, Russell more than acquits himself in the evening's second play. His eulogy of the chaste unicorn is particularly charming. The most skillful performance of the evening is Bronias Sielewicz' Decima, the actress who becomes queen when the real queen flees an attacking mob. Graceful in her movements, she is alternately coy and contemptuous as the part demands...
...subtlety is effectively matched by the clowning of Edward Thommen in the role of the prime minister. A host of other players are impressive in the lesser roles--Richard Eder as the beggar, Matilda Hills as the hypocritical queen, Leslie Cass as the scheming Nona, and many, many more...
...Poet's Theatre in Cambridge tonight will present two plays by William Butler Yeats: "The Player Queen," a humorous play in verse, and "Purgatory." They will be performed in the court of Fogg Art Museum...
...Stratocruiser on the first leg of their record (30,000-mile) royal tour, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh winged through the night across the North Atlantic, touched down at Gander, Newfoundland for fuel, then skipped south to Bermuda, Britain's oldest colony. Landing at U.S.-leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil...