Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though it points up the fact that William S. Gilbert's Jack Point, constructed on the same basis, is a more interesting character than Feste). Richard Wordsworth (Malvolio), Joss Ackland (Sir Toby Belch), and the other comics play conventionally, with the down-the-line competence that distinguishes the Old Vic from American Shakespearean companies...
...gentle, mildly charming production that Michael Benthall has directed for the Old Vic, the love poetry and the subtly melancholy atmosphere it distills form the pervading element, and the contrasting comic elements are very much played down. There is a distinct lack of any sort of vitality, but in Twelth Night vitality can be ruinous if not restrained, and its absence can be borne. The most basic need is for technique and taste in the production rather than energy and passion, and the former are the qualities that the Vic is best equipped to provide...
...conventionally; for the most part, the only sensible thing to do with love poetry, especially when the playwright has not used it to individualize the character who speaks it, is to say it as clearly and prettily as possible while still maintaining a reasonable degree of intensity. The Old Vic actors take this tack, and here again competence is the order of the evening, although Barbara Jefford is too solid and self-assured to be right for Viola. Half the pathos of the lorn and lonely girl, washed up on a strange and almost friendless coast, is lost when...
...banner-waving is also a subtle, even ambiguous, study of kingship and the attributes required for it. The pep-rally ambience, however, is much more vividly dramatized, and probably tends by its nature to overshadow the "deeper" element. At any rate, the wooing scene was delightful in the Vic version, and the rest was at least pretty good...
Playing at the number one position, Hamm defeated his old nemesis, Gary Tobin, who had whipped him earlier this year in a holiday tournament. Tim Gallwey withstood the smashes of Ephman Ed Fleischman to win in the second slot. Gerry Emmet, Pete Lund, Fred Vinton, Tony Lake, Wally Stimpson, Vic Poletti, and Kent Allen also registered victories...