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...WBAI is the British Broadcasting Co.'s famed, culture-heavy Third Programme, which rents records of its shows to the foundation for $1 a disk. This week Gilbert and Sullivan fans can hear a BBC D'Oyly Carte broadcast of Patience, and Shakespeareans will hear Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theater company do Twelfth Night. Next week WBAI will play a tape, made in Europe last summer at the Bayreuth Festival, of an uncut (close to five hours) performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger...
...Halloween goblin, too early to be a Christmas Santa. Actor Charles Laughton was trapped 'tween seasons with enough facial forestry to make a sensation at a woodchoppers' ball. Actually, he had let himself go to seed for a role as King Lear at Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespearean theater. Leaving London on a brief trip to Paris, where presumably he would roam incognito. Laughton muffled: "I'll be glad to get a lawnmower on this...
Almost 30 years after he last boomed through the title role of Othello in England, Actor Paul Robeson, 61, was the tormented Moor again at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, opening the 100th season of the mecca in Stratford-on-Avon. Free to roam since his eight-year U.S. passport ban was lifted last June, Fellow Traveler Robeson got an ovation from the audience, almost unanimous huzzahs from the critics, but his Desdemona, blonde British Actress Mary Ure, was rapped for her lack of pathos...
When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the playwright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...
When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the play-wright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...