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...second superb performance is Ellis Rabb's snooty Malvolio. Rabb was, in fact, one of the best players in the AST's early years. At any rate, this is his fourth enactment of Malvolio (he has even directed Twelfth Night elsewhere), and his experience shows...
...characters who dominate A Life in the Theater are actors. John (Peter Evans) is young, zestful, ambitious, a Hamlet-to-be in his mind's eye. Robert (Ellis Rabb) is well into middle age, disenchanted, edgy about criticism, a Polonius of worldly wisdom who can carry a scene but has long since dropped any hope of ruling the stage. They play out scenes before imaginary audiences. With marvelous mimicry, Mamet conjures up parodistic echoes of past playwriting titans together with melodramatic fustian...
...Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...
...imaginative production might have rescued the good and masked the bad in this 80-year-old drama. Director Ellis Rabb reverses that equation, how ever; his Caesar and Cleopatra is as dull as it is dutiful. Scenes change with astonishing rapidity, but the action seems regulated by an hourglass - an illusion whose secret is best left with Rabb and the Sphinx. Ironically, the one liberty the director has taken, a vigorous pruning to keep the play within two hours, makes Shaw's needlessly complicated plot simply baffling...
...gratified long-suppressed desires during the week. Sheila Weidenfeld, the First Lady's press secretary, sat in the President's chair at the Cabinet table, closed her eyes and made a wish, just as she had in 1958 when her father, Ike's Cabinet secretary Maxwell Rabb, was leaving office. Said she: "I was nine years old, and I wished I could come back to the White House, and I did." Sheila and Husband Edward spent a night in the elegant Queen's Bedroom; next morning, a White House operator phoned to ask, "What would...