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...Assburn's liberated-bopper of a charge (Mary Wanna), a hefty schoolmarm (Hortense Prune) and her maidens, One-Eyed Jack and his faithful Indian Toronto, two refugees from the frontiers of the 1840s. While they're all stomping around in Helza's "enchanted forest," Strong's unflattering imitations of Shakespearean romance require that they fall in love with each other in various un-lovely combinations until the last scene matches them up in their rightful (but still bizarre) combinations. This is all happening in Louisiana, remember. No matter how hard I remind myself that it's supposed...
Othello. Stuart Burge's direction of a British National Theater production, starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Frank Finlay, is a record of an outstanding stage production. Avoiding, for the most part, the elaborate "filmic" effects of so many Shakespearean films, it shows that straight-forward filming of a play can succeed admirably...
Much Ado About Nothing is, in the words of Bernard Shaw, "perhaps the most dangerous actor-manager trap in the Shakespearean repertory." It is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy; it demands directors and actors who can be both funny and serious. Yet it can also be- as this brilliant TV version of the current Broadway production demonstrated-a dazzling reward for actor, manager and audience alike...
Henry V. A milestone Shakespearean film. Directing his first film, Laurence Olivier tried to bring a good performance of Shakespeare to a larger and more varied audience than would ever come to the theatre. Some highbrow critics found his film disappointing and unsophisticated the same unfair criticism leveled at more recent films of Shakespeare--but the audiences loved both the spectacular Battle of Agincourt and Olivier's acting...
Died. Margaret Webster, 67, Shakespearean director and last member of one of Britain's most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...