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Richard Backus, as the king of France, looks much too young but has an impressive and resonant voice. If only he took care not to slur phrases and to avoid the Shakespearean sing-song jog that it is so easy to fall into...
...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...
...that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal barrage of words, words, words. "It isn't the money," intones Ford. "It never is. It's people. The things they want, and the things they...
...Charles Playhouse staging Brecht's magnum opus, Galileo, might draw a gasp of astonishment. The play requires elaborate production, many large and varied sets, a cast of fifty; and the script makes enormous demands of the actors. But with the help of Tony van Bridge, a fine Shakespearean actor imported from Canada to play Galileo, the Charles production remains competent throughout and occasionally flashes through to brilliance...
Divorced. By Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 58, well-versed Shakespearean actress and pillar of Britain's Old Vic: Jeremy Hutchinson, 50, London barrister whose roster of clients has included Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Party-girl Christine Keeler; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in London...