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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfolds in a series of canons for two, three and four voices, choral chants, spare snatches of instrumental sound. Merely to cue the onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time with the singers, he shaped a performance of geometric clarity, suffused with a thoroughly moving air of penitential passion...
...group effort. Set, costumes (also by Mr. Heeley), and music are more important to the success of the production than is usually the case. This success rests finally on the subtlety with which these elements, and the acting, were made to combine and to complement each other and the text; probably, therefore, (though no one can be sure who is finally responsible for what) this Twelfth Night is a directorial success. Mr. Benthall's work lacks variety of mood and interest, and overstresses the play's quality of Keatsian languor and softness; yet, in its way, like Olivia's face...
...goes mad quite prettily, in the most fetching rags you ever saw. One wonders why Laertes insists on ranting and shouting and making such a fuss, just as if something serious had happened to her. (It can be argued, however, that this incongruity exists to some extent in the text...
...motto "Printer's lead has changed the world more than gold," Editor-Publisher Baer cooks up his Bratwurst-heavy humor in offices just two rubble-strewn blocks from the headquarters of East Berlin's government. In addition to Tarantel, Baer puts out a daily, satiric cartoon-and-text press service for some 800 subscribers in the West...
...passage from Winesburg, Ohio which James Leo Herlihy takes for his text, Sherwood Anderson remarks that the unmarketable apples that the pickers disdain to harvest are actually choice: "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." But times have changed since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author...