Word: shakespeareanisms
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...that the children of such a mother would be a bit odd, and they are. Two narcissists that resemble Adams House stereotypes play co-stars in their mother's little melodramas. Philip Resnik is the very portrait of the artist as a young snob, but Laurence Bouvard's irritatingly Shakespearean accent detracts from an otherwise solid performance...
THIS WEEKEND Harvard gets yet another opportunity to indulge in a masochistic bout of Shakespearean tragedy, this time via Ben Evett's new production of Trothis and Cressida Creatively staged and deftly directed. Evett's production is as successful as any rendition of a largely uninteresting and confused story...
...Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some of the great Shakespearean roles and gave definitive performances in plays by Chekhov and Ibsen. His screen credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Dead of Night (1945) and The Browning Version (1951). Knighted in 1959, Redgrave struggled to keep working and in 1979 made his last major appearance when, already nearly...
DIED. Alexander Scourby, 71, plummy-voiced actor and narrator of television and film, including Victory at Sea (1954); of an apparent heart attack; in Boston. The Brooklyn-born Scourby began on the New York stage in 1936 as a Shakespearean actor. Though he protested, "What actor wants to be known as a voice?" the rich timbre of his instrument took him early to advertising voice-overs, where he was said at one time to be the highest-priced voice in the business, and to Talking Books for the Blind, where he recorded more than 400 works, including the complete King...
WHEN IT COMES to Shakespearean romance, nothing is ever quite as it seems. Women constantly disguising as men, fools providing wisdom to elderly sages--you name the incongruity, and chances are, it's there. Yet somehow, amidst such seeming chaos, playwright and characters always manage to extricate themselves from confusion and discover matrimonial bliss before the final curtain falls...