Word: sensualism
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There are no pretentious general conclusions to be drawn. There is no tenable reason to try to grasp what every instant meant in terms of the one that preceded or followed. These are just images, moments that are frozen to be recalled, to bring back the sensual thrill of the there and then. They are fragments of a timespan to which goodbye is, finally, being said...
Rosemary Murphy, also brought in for only one role, emphasizes the sensual side of Lady Macbeth. She enjoys wearing a revealing gown with an open V down to the navel. She likes physical touching: the feel of her own or Macbeth's hands running down her skin, the tousling of Macbeth's hair with her affectionate fingers...
...fault she showed here a decade ago when trying the not unsimilar part of Goneril in King Lear. In talking of the murder plot, when Macbeth asks, "If we should fail?," her reply--"We fail?"--lacks the foreceful scorn, the reassuring incredulity needed to prop his weakening resolve. A sensual Lady Macbeth is perfectly valid, but the role requires a decided steak of masculinity, such as captured so imposingly in the portrayals of Dame Judith Anderson, Mrs. Tore Segelcke, and Siobhan McKenna...
Much of that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...
...middle age, Leni remains a sensual and generous woman, but she no longer understands the world. In fact, Böll suggests, it is doubtful if she ever...