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...weekend evening during Steve's turbulent sophomore year, he decided that he wanted to visit a friend in Kirkland House. But instead of conventionally walking up the stairs and knocking on the door, Snavely chose the Shakespearean route--he climbed the wall to enter through the window...
Take for example his response to the question "Do Aprodisiacs Work?" In a sketch set in Medieval England where everyone speaks in less-than-Shakespearean verse. Allen casts himself as an unfunny court jester who wants to seduce the queen...
...through his good offices, villains and sweethearts alike get theirs. So it is with A.J. Antoon, 27, the Joseph Papp prodigy-protegé who staged That Championship Season. Now Antoon has directed the New York Shakespeare Festival celebration of Much Ado as if unaware of the usual approach to Shakespearean farce, the mannered conceits that often seem aimed at pleasing only the performers and antiquarians. Ignorant of his "duty," Antoon knows only that the play is a comedy and that audiences like to laugh. He does justice to both...
Kerr already displayed a notable talent as a Harvard undergraduate in the early sixties. Following advanced training in London, he has been performing many roles in the Midwest and far West, including major Shakespearean ones. All this experience has paid off. His classical delivery is impeccable, his mean mien expressive, his ruthless efficiency chilling. And his "moiety of the world" speech is a lesson in how to make the most of the extraordinary poetic diction that permeates this play. This is a gem of a performance--one that dazzles with the sharp and cold gleam of a sapphire...
...Polonius is silly, rather than senile; his character lacks what the genuine figure of Polonius invariably exhibits, an exaggerated sense of his worth and of the importance of his actions. Fletcher Word plays Hamlet who seems neither intense nor melancholy. Liz Hollister, however, portrays Ophelia effectively both in her Shakespearean and comi-tragic contexts; she performs her lines, taken directly from Hamlet, with suitable emotion, but dumbly submits to her being used as a prop in the play staged by Claudius and Polonius...