Word: role
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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn, (through Sept. 14). The comedy Much Ado About Nothing is directed by London's Peter Gill in his American debut; Henry V has Len Cariou in the title role; while Hamlet is a stunning full-length version with Brian Bedford as the prince, Maria Tucci as Ophelia and Morris Carnovsky as Polonius. For variety, Chekhov makes a premier appearance at this festival in a supple staging of The Three Sisters...
...Earl of Scarbrough, 72, Lord Chamberlain of the royal household from 1952-63; of a heart attack; in Rotherham, Yorkshire. An old-school aristocrat whose family motto is "A Sound Conscience Is a Wall of Brass," the Lord Chamberlain ran head-on into the New Morality in his traditional role as censor of plays, protected Britons from histrionic homosexuality by barring such plays as Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the London stage and emasculated Beckett's Waiting for Godot on grounds of blasphemy...
Actor Nicol Williamson rejects the notion of Hamlet in the buff, for example, but conceded in a recent New York Times interview that he would be in favor of disrobing for the title role in a planned London production of Prometheus Bound. After all, he argued, it is hardly rational for a fallen god, chained to a rock until the end of time, to wear a tigerskin loincloth for eternity. A more immediate concern for many actors and actresses is that few have the physical endowments to withstand public scrutiny. Shelley Winters, now 46, observed of onstage nudity: "I think...
...Williams' account, all suffer from role fatigue-the sort of exhaustion afflicting actors in a play that has run too long. One of the whites says: "I think I am very tired of being a Jew." Williams, clearly, is very tired of being a black. He seems to assume that his characters, whether they know it or not, are stifled as much by the kind of ennui that immobilizes men trapped in situations they cannot control as by the terror of their predicament...
...work out a satisfactory resolution of these strong pressures may be impossible for any institution, and particularly for a University which has so seldom faced such strong internal political pressures. Bureaucratic rigidities long predating Dean Glimp's tenure hamper the task of adjustment; he has played some small role in loosening such rigidities. And if threads of the much-vaunted Harvard community still exist after the turmoil of last April, it is in part due to his continuing efforts at mediation. These efforts may well be missed; one can only hope that Harvard will find another man to take...