Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staged by Director Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero, the tragedy emerged a moving mixture of sound and fury, dark plots, and love destroyed by desperate ambition. The night was filled with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode...
...blood makes several appearances: in the castle hangings, in the royal carpet, in the two thrones (though these last seem to suggest the red lacquer of China rather than the rough furniture of medieval Scotland). Marie Day has designed suitable costumes; and Richard Baldridge has devised musical and sound effects, for percussion or bagpipes, that are more primitive than one normally finds in a Shakespearean production--but then I suppose Macbeth's milieu was quite primitive...
With the limited facilities for John Beck's serviceable set, director Julius Novick has deployed his charges with a resourceful hand. He has obviously striven for split-second timing in speech, gesture, and sound cues--a facet of the play that presents unusually frequent and tricky demands. His pacing never drags...
...after ten years of preparation and two years of actual production, Samuel Goldwyn has brought it to the screen in Technicolor, Todd-AO, and stereophonic sound, where it will probably enjoy more box-office success than ever...
Borrowing his pigments from this true story, one of Japan's leading novelists, 34-year-old Yukio Mishima (The Sound of Waves) has painted a vivid, quasi-existential portrait of an Outsider. He has also given his novel at least as many symbolic levels of meaning as the triple-tiered Golden Temple. In the U.S. the book is unlikely to match its Japanese success, but its underlying theme is far from insular-that beauty, and perhaps civilization itself, may inhibit and paralyze the will to live...