Word: singewald
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...Singewald, as the aged Countess of Rousillon, sends her young son off to the French court and reacts to his priggish follies with precisely the right air of elegantly detached concern. Anthony Dawson, as the old lord Lafeu, looks and moves as an old man should; in delivering what could be Polonius-like lines, he shuns both casualness and sententiousness. Peter Johnson, as young Count Bertram's follower Parolles, burlesques his role into an amusing Falstaff figure...
Director Stephen Most has considerably obscured this question, however, by a highly stylized interpretation. Amy Singewald, as Miss Y, moves like a sleepwalker, holds peculiar positions, and gazes out into the audience with large, vacant eyes. There is a hint that she is the weaker, but she seems to come from a world where that concept doesn't apply...