Word: shakespeareanisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiss Me, Kate. Highly enjoyable musical with a semi-Shakespearean plot and a sustained Cole Porter score (TIME...
...uncovered, two-story stage like Sir Laurence Olivier's version of the Globe in Henry V (but without Olivier's broadly stylized interpretation), The Masquers' performance gave fresh point to Shakespearean conventions demanded by a theater without scenery or a curtain: the numerous exits & entrances, the corpse-bearing processions, the scene-setting dialogue...
Since the HTW's version is only the fourth production of the Shakespearean comedy in this country it has aroused interest in many other student organizations and dramatic groups. Wellesley, Harvard, and may high school classes have already attended the play at special performances...
This accurate study of backstage ballet life is possible because the producers hit upon the idea of employing real ballet dancers to play the parts. Robert Helpmann, who is not only the biggest attraction in British ballet but also a Shakespearean actor, is given a featured role. Ludmilla Teherina plays herself, a temperamental but very luscious prima ballerina...
Though "Macbeth" was filmed well over a year ago, coming out at this time has prompted unfavorable comparisons with Olivier's "Hamlet." This is quite unreasonable, in view of the above given information and more; the two Shakespearean heroes were of a completely different emotional and intellectual nature, so is the poetry they speak, and so are the two motion pictures. Olivier's reserve would be as out of place in "Macbeth" as would Welles' turbulence in "Hamlet...