Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Cyrus Durgin, drama and music critic of the Boston Globe, printed in last Sunday's newspaper. I was shocked to find a person of your eminence unleashing such an ill-timed and sloppily thought-out barrage against the Cambridge Drama Festival's tenancy this summer of the new, State-constructed Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (MeBAC); and I was surprised to see Mr. Durgin rising to your bait...
...state, further, that Falk presented "the greatest American stars in the greatest plays for many, many years." This speaks very poorly indeed for your judgement and taste. For eleven years, Falk gave us seasons that each contained only one or two plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot...
...alone on an island for a long time and could have only one such-and-such, which one would you choose?" Were I confronted with such a choice from the complete plays of Shakespeare, I should pick Macbeth to have on my shipwrecked island (the wit would of course state a preference for The Tempest...
...cannot postpone forever some remarks on the performance of the title role, here undertaken by Jason Robards, Jr. Truthfulness obliges me to state that herein lies the chief weakness of this production. Now Robards is one of our most richly endowed native actors, and his performances in 20th-century American works have been unbeatable. But he is as yet vocally unequipped to cope with the demands of Shakespearean language. This is not surprising in view of the fact that his only previous experience with the Bard was a brief go at Hotspur last summer in Canada. Good classical diction...
...then that the strain of the banquet has been too much for her, that she is beginning to crack, that she is no longer in full command. We sense that something dire will befall her; and indeed this is the last time we shall see her in a conscious state. This exit contrasts wonderfully with her first entrance; and the two form a bracketing frame for her entire life on stage as a complete human being...