Word: rousillon
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...Singewald, as the aged Countess of Rousillon, sends her young son off to the French court and reacts to his priggish follies with precisely the right air of elegantly detached concern. Anthony Dawson, as the old lord Lafeu, looks and moves as an old man should; in delivering what could be Polonius-like lines, he shuns both casualness and sententiousness. Peter Johnson, as young Count Bertram's follower Parolles, burlesques his role into an amusing Falstaff figure...
Houseman has underlined the essential gravity in a number of ways. He had Dorothy Jeakins design the costumes for three important members of the Roussillon household--the Countess, Lafeu, and Helena herself--all in blacks and browns. And Will Steven Armstrong's settings for Rousillon are rather colorless (except in the finale), compared with the blues and golds of Paris and the burnt oranges and ochres of Florence. Also, much of Herman Chessid's background music, full of archaic touches right down to Landini and Burgundian cadences, is melancholia-tinged...
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