Word: roussillon
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...richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes and an honor guard with turbans and flashing swords, Morocco's King Hassan II arrived aboard the French cruise ship Roussillon, which he had chartered for the occasion. Hassan is understandably loath to fly: his own air force tried unsuccessfully to shoot down his plane last summer as he was returning home from a visit to France...
...often left to the schoolroom, about a rich peasant who has married above himself, is cuckolded by his wife and humiliated by her pretentious petty-noble parents. In the bones of every 17th century comedy of manners, sophisticated or crude, there aches a bitter social criticism. Director Jean-Paul Roussillon has made farce into a quicklime laughter that burns to those bones. It is the paradox of modern directing to play a villain for his sympathetic qualities (as Stanislavsky counseled his actors); to play tragedy with a light touch; above all to play comedy straight. The maxim has worked trenchant...
Consider the skeleton on which Shakespeare has hung his play. Helena is the orphaned ward of the Countess of Roussillon, and is in love with the Countess' son Bertram, who is above her in station. When he goes to the King's court, she follows. The King has been pronounced incurably ill, but Helena promises to cure him in return for the hand of any lord she chooses. The King recovers in two days, and she picks Bertram, who wants none of her. He is forced to marry her, but leaves at once to fight in the Italian wars...
...most remarkable performance in this entire production is that of Eva Le Gallienne as Bertram's mother. the Countess of Roussillon-which Shaw quite arguably called "the most beautiful old woman's part ever written." Although this is Miss Le Gallienne's first appearance at the Festival, she brings to it well over a half century of professional stage experience. She manages to convey all the warmth and wit and wisdom of this aristocratic lady who is fully aware of her ward's virtues and her son's defects. One cannot begin to describe what she can do with...
Everyone down to the lowliest footman, maid-in-waiting, and soldier merrts praise for the astonishing presion with which the whole company goes through its paces. And this extends to the stage-crew too. As the scenes skip about from Roussillon to Paris to Florence to Marseilles, Marsha Eck's backdrops and panels rise and fall swiftly without noise or jerkiness, and her set-pieces roll in from the sides with split-second timing. I cannot recall the last time I saw a complex production with such impeccably well-oiled mechanics. If you don't mind an All's Well...