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...that the C.D.F. "laid a considerable financial egg," you go on to deduce that it has "the least successful record of all." This is a crassly materialistic view. The C.D.F., in the stature of its offerings, has been a pronounced success. And in giving Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna it provided local theatregoers with as great a performance as the Boston area has ever witnessed...
...Neither the C.D.F., Group 20, nor any other local drama group is concerned with social prominence; they are all interested in serving the noblest of the arts to the best of their ability. And how dare you imply that the bringing to local stages of such luminous performers as Siobhan McKenna, Marcel Marceau, and Sir John Gielgud constitutes "fooling around in the theatre...
FINNEGANS WAKE (Caedmon) has Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna mounting their bisexcycles and wheeling through Joyce's dream landscape with a flair and gusto few readers bring to the book. Cusack's ramble through "Shem the Penman." with its miragelike puns and softly melting sentences, is a triumph of rhythm, sound and suggestion...
Playing the title role will be Jason Robards, Jr., who regards this as the most strenuous and important task of his career. Opposite him as Lady Macbeth will be Siobhan McKenna, the star of the group's first production, Twelfth Night. The show will run until August...
What of the individual performances? It will come as no surprise that Siobhan McKenna's Viola is a gem. Someone once wrote that Violas are born, not made; and Miss McKenna is clearly a born Viola. She is a great enough actress not to have to worry that, at her first entrance, she not only doesn't move under her own power but is completely unconscious...