Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Dramatic Club and the Theatre Group are producing Shakespearean comedies within the coming two months, it was announced yesterday...
...only other good performance besides Hull, is given by Richard Waring. But he is miscast. His English-trained voice is unable to grapple with American dialect and he gives the impression of a frustrated Shakespearean player...
Actor Joe Dooley, 27, came to Broadway from Omaha by way of the U.S. Air Force. Last year he toured for three months with Margaret Webster's Shakespearean company, did four weeks in summer stock, picked up three bit parts in Manhattan's City Center productions. An understudy now in the Broadway production of Shaw's Saint Joan, Joe helps cover his Greenwich Village apartment rent by selling ties at Brooks Brothers...
...brilliantly-an assured leader with the weakened fiber and amorous susceptibilities of late middle age. As Antony, Olivier is a good actor, but not the architect of a commanding role. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is an all-too-believable enchantress -mercurial, irresistible, even royal; only not of Shakespearean depth and stature. Actress Leigh mistakes mere emotionalism for intensity; she intones-while half-violating - some of her greatest lines...
...Brattle Theatre has taken a busman's holiday from its Shakespearean tragedy with two modern tours de force which provide a highly entertaining, if at times puzzling, program. Both Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" have their messages and their morals. Fortunately, however, these are practically unintelligible when surrounded by a superbly fantastic plot in the first play, and then kaleidoscoping ninety years in less than and hour in the second...