Word: tyzack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles, enjoys far fiercer support in Britain than in the U.S. To Lettice, modernism scorns the past and its romance. Yet what lingers from the play's three sprawling hours is Smith's one-woman parade of fussy antics and arch-nasalities to the dumb-struck wonderment of Margaret Tyzack as the horrified boss turned sly collaborator. Shaffer needs to edit and focus. Lettice's architectural views notwithstanding, less can be more...
Could this classic mismatch have worked? Probably not. He was ungiving, and she was too taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...
...forced to operate in a straitjacket. So drudgy Tom sets the play's pace and defeats the efforts of Herrmann to animate this stick--a challenge not usually above him, as he demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum air and anguished...
...Shakespeare used the motley of farce to clothe his meditation on "class"-on the battle in every society between rank and value, between nobility in title and nobility of the soul. Helena (Harriet Walter), a physician's daughter living in the care of the Countess of Rossillion (Margaret Tyzack), is desperately in love with the Countess's son Bertram (Philip Franks); but Bertram, influenced by the pompous Captain Parolles (Stephen Moore), refuses to love a woman of low station, especially when forced into marriage with her. Deception and humiliation bring Parolles to his knees and Bertram, ultimately...