Word: shakepearian
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...take this production on its own terms, you've first of all got to disabuse yourself of the notion that you're watching a film. You may be looking at a screen, but what you're seeing is the stage production done by the Shakepearian Festival Players in Stratford, Ontario, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie. Otherwise, the narrow confines of the stage, the incessant shouting of the actors, and the occasionally excessive posturing needed to impress the last rows of the balcony, will prove annoying. If you want to, it's also easy to laugh at the formal gestures...
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