Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Tony Richardson, 36, British director (stage: Look Back in Anger; screen: Tom Jones), and Vanessa Redgrave, 27, Sir Michael's daughter, herself a promising Shakespearean actress: their second daughter; in London...
...days when defense lawyers spouted Scripture and wept real tears, Americans had the time of their lives at public trials. "People came for miles to hear those closing arguments," recalls a nostalgic Georgia judge. "It was almost like a Shakespearean festival." Today, sensational murder trials still draw S.R.O. audiences. But at a time when everyone frets over rising crime, hardly anyone attends the normal felony trial, to say nothing of misdemeanors. From where he sits in Texas, a state that once loved litigation even more than football, San Antonio's Criminal Court Judge Archie Brown flatly says: "The empty...
...youngsters, Clarence Williams and Carolan Daniels, play acceptably. But George Rose as the shopkeeper is nothing less than superb. And that is only what we would expect of this British craftsman, who is not only the finest Shakespearean clown now to be had but also one of the best character actors in the world...
CAMERA 3 (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Bertolt Brecht's dramatic exercises for Shakespearean actors are presented for the first time on television. Lotte Lenya demonstrates the exercise for Romeo and Juliet...
...STRATFORD, ONT. A Shakespeare memorial summer seems an odd time for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada to present two plays by other authors, but that is what is happening in Ontario, where Wycherley's The Country Wife opened early this week and Moliére's Le Bourgeoís Gentilhomme is already playing. King Lear and Richard II are playing too. John Colicos. who looks much like Paul Scofield in the role, is an able and imperial Lear in a production skillfully but somewhat sentimentally staged by Stratford's Artistic Director Michael Langham...