Word: quints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirkland led at all stops thanks to the hot shooting of John Leshy and Alan Quint, and the pin-point passing of Dave Taft...
...rest, however, I have little but priase. Mr. Britten has skillfully caught the governess's apprehensiveness and growing terror; Peter Quint is magnificently and compellingly evil--particularly in his first wordless and almost muezzin-like wall; and the children sing tunes and the new English music that is Mr. Britten's specialty...
...their "Gala Opening Event" rather than Mr. Britten's truly gala Midsummer Night's Dream) and I must indeed admit at once that Mr. Britten certainly has made the best of a bad business. James's ambiguous suggestions of the governess's own insanity have necessarily been ignored: Peter Quint and his cohort Miss Jessel are accepted as real enough apparitions of evil, and governess is affirmed. But this is, perhaps, all for the good...
...production, happily, is worthy of the music. Patricia Neway, whose presence the Festival was fortunate enough to secure, suffered (at least on opening night) from a slightly husky voice; but her acting was ample compensation. Richard Cassily, as Quint, was severe and impressive in his evil; and to the part of Mrs. Grose, the housekeeper, Ruth Kobart brought a warm understanding. Especially impressive, however, were the children, Bruce Zachariades and Michele Farr, who somehow managed to avoid both dooms awaiting most child actors: self-consciousness and cuddly cuteness...
...didactic Peter Quint...