Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more votes than Ike in their states. More than 15 hours after the polls closed, his party was still in a struggle for control of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives-a fact that made shaky even Ike's own claim that his was a vic tory for "modern Republicanism...
Macbeth did not strikingly differ as a production from the Old Vic's competent, rather than brilliant, Richard II and Romeo and Juliet. But it so much more powerfully reverberated as a play as to offer greater rewards. And much of its strength lay in what had been the earlier productions' weakness-the title roles: despite limitations, Macbeth and his lady made a striking pair...
...competent Macbeth may be expected to convey the rushing theater, the rising drama of the first three acts and the intense poetry of almost all the play. The Old Vic did both things and something more. It communicated what is so ominous, so Oedipus-like, in the prophecies that by seeming to shield Macbeth from Nemesis only speed him toward it. And it caught the play's feudal, barbaric, night-lighted atmosphere, the sense of a haunted world no less than a haunted...
Richard II brought London's Old Vic to Broadway after a ten-year absence. In 1946, with Laurence Olivier's Oedipus and to some degree Ralph Richardson's Falstaff, it provided some of the supreme theater memories of its time. During its present stay, the Old Vic must attempt new victories; for Broadway, it is a cast of unknown names, except for cinema's Claire Bloom...
Richard II made a less reverberant opening flourish than did Henry IV in 1946. A step backward from Henry in English history, it is also a step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard...