Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A brilliant and graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A young actress (Felicity Kendal) encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial era, in a brilliant and graceful comedy...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. U.S. Director James Ivory takes a wry, wistful look at fading British influence in India while ostensibly concerned with a love triangle that disrupts an English Shakespearean troupe on tour...
...Juliet is young only in years, and packs a woman's wiles in a woman's body. The lovers are upstaged by the nurse, Dame Edith Evans, a paragon of timing, inflection and character immersion who could teach Finney and Bloom a thing or three about Shakespearean acting...
...might expect from the play's poverty of invention, the strongest scenes are the comedy episodes for which King has been able to develop his own non-Shakespearean business. The mock capture and interrogation of Parolles has, with the aid of a few concealing branches become almost a Marx Brothers' episode--fast, illogical, and packed with visual gags...