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...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Sir Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris and Max Adrian star with Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier in his celebrated 1962 production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya...
PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, will have Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode's Escurial until July 29, followed by Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Aug. 3-26, and then Anatol, a musical by Tom Jones, Aug. 31-Sept...
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, produced by Sir Laurence Olivier and featuring the original Chichester Festival Theater cast: Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris, Joan Plowright, Max Adrian, and Olivier himself...
...Helen Hayes, who is trouping this season with APA, says that she is "the Joan of Arc of the old pros." Sir Laurence Olivier, who invited her to play Ophelia in the London première of the National Theater Company in 1963, and also directed her in Uncle Vanya, says that she played "the most beautiful scene I've ever seen in my life...
...simply does not seem to be alive to all the intricacies of her part. It is impossible to gather from her behavior in Act I that she and Sofya have been antagonistic--and this must be clear by Act II. She has the same half-smile for Astrov, for Vanya, even for Telyegin, when he protests at her forgetting his name. As a result, her dialogue drags; one feels surprise, instead of quiet uneasiness, when her relations with the others are made clear...