Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who are not actors and who resent acting, and with an ultra-conservative public. Also, a musical score says more about the finished product than the script of a play. Play actors have a more imaginative, personal contribution than musicians. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is actually a musical aria, but the 'score' gives only the meaning, not the melody and rhythm...
...Shakespeare," Strasberg continued, "and that he was an actor." He said the best clue to Shakespeare's ideas on acting is not to be found in Hamlet's oft-cited directions to the Players (Act iii, 2), but rather in Hamlet's 'O what a rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy (Act ii, 2), especially the lines, "Is it not monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect...
...into suspense verging on horror, and is thus the only piece which can claim to draw its reader onward. Yet it achieves this only in the narrative. The technical ease of "how to catch a shark" seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving...
Three second prizes of $25 each went to Richard H.R. Smithies '57, who recited "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister" and "My Last Dutchess" by Robert Browning; Ralph B. Perry III '58, who presented Cicero's First Oration Against Cataline; and Donald G. Richards '56, who read "The Tombs of Westminster Abbey...
...cast and the Rodgers and Hammerstein score overcome the frequently distracting photography, the travelogue scenery, and some distractingly phony sets, to carry the plot forward. The photography can be helpful in the large scenes like the clambake or in the choreography numbers. But when MacRae sings the Soliloquy he is lost, if not drowned, in the midst of miles of surf, sand, and rock formations...