Word: schupf
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Scott is so good an actor that he can almost get away with this, but his approach seems to have infected a great part of the cast, and they cannot. Earle Edgerton and Lucienne Schupf, playing Cornwall and Regan, delivered even the most trivial lines with appalling vehemence. John Baker's Edgar suffered from the same virus--although he was excellent in the Poor Tom scenes--while Gerald Medearis' performance of Edmund was in the best tradition of Errol Flynn...
Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...
Patricia Adel has a face that can freeze into a vividly discomforting mask; her movement is sometimes less successful, although properly awkward. Lucienne Schupf, extremely energetic, skillfully emphasizes the over-theatrical, nearly manic-depressive moods of her pitiful character. She throws sparks into an atmosphere that is designed to baffle and perhaps poison the audience. Katherine Kitch, as Madame, seemed nervous, and acted in a series of poses...