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...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, might have taken its theme from a line of Shakespeare's: "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own." As the subject, Sir Thomas More, Actor Paul Scofield is flawless...
...Weary Magnificence. Scofield, 39, is Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, a superb testimonial to the seldom-realized potential of the individual conscience. With a kind of weary magnificence, Scofield sinks himself in the part, studiously underplays it, and somehow displays the inner mind of a man destined for sainthood. Not content just to applaud, much of the audience stands and noisily shouts its appreciation for his movingly perfect performance. Appearing in the U.S. for the first time, Scofield was preceded by a reputation hard to live up to. From Kenneth Tynan...
...grubbiest creature who has ever been seen on Broadway, beside whom the average Bowery bum would seem like the twin of Mr. Clean. For all the brilliance of the playwright, The Caretaker would collapse onstage without an actor who could make the old man both repulsive and sympathetic. Like Scofield, Pleasence got his early experience in Birmingham. Enormously popular on British television, he has wide and proven capabilities as a character actor and in leading roles in the West End. His working range runs from comedy through the sinister to the malevolent. Son of a railroad stationmaster, Pleasence...
...Scofield, Pleasence and Campbell only begin the list of British actors who seem to be taking over the U.S. stage. Sir Michael Redgrave lends luster to Graham Greene's otherwise mediocre The Complaisant Lover. John Mills is arriving this month in Ross, Terence Rattigan's play about Lawrence of Arabia, and Eric (Separate Tables) Portman is headed again for Broadway in an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, is a prismatic play that throws its varicolored light on the theme of public duty v. private conscience. As Sir Thomas More, British Actor Paul Scofield gives a performance that is an incarnation...