Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Schmidt, who also plays the leading role, has produced a new translation of the play called by Vladimir Nabokov the greatest ever written in Russia. Schmidt's version happily avoids the ponderousness of other efforts, and is marked by smoothness and consistency. However, it contains an oppressive use of "damn," "bastards," "sons of bitches" and similar expressions. In moderation they can be funny, in excess they quickly lose their impact. "Bastards" is not an inherently funny word, as Schmidt would have us believe...
...officials then mistake a bankrupt dandy passing through town for the inspector. The young man, played by Schmidt, manages to make off with a good deal of cash and the mayor's daughter's virtue before he is discovered...
...Schmidt starts slowly in his opening monologue. But once surrounded by foils he is marvelously poised, a dashing, foolish master of the simpering toadies. He rants on about his acquaintance with the great ("Well Pushkin, old man, how are things?") and finally falls besodden and exhausted...
Joan Tolentino as the mayor's wife was only to Schmidt in talent, and Laura did a job as the flighty daughter. Other the east, especially the town official, usually had one humorous bi-- a way of talking, etc--which began pale about the fifth time it was used...
...this war that Director Daniel Seltzer created in last weekend's concert reading of Agamemnon. He had help: what we are and what we want to be took on separate bodies. Agamemnon (David Stone), tall, lean unhappy king is cousin to Aegisthus (Paul Schmidt), less unhappy, not at all king. Cassandra (Lynn Milgrim) wears the colors--saffron--of the dead daughter of Queen Clytemnestra (Frances Gitter). Further, the director had the help of superb actors--actors so strong individually that, for the most part, they could pool their strength in affecting their audience instead of competing to affect...