Word: violas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viola-Aguecheek duel is lengthy (there must be five minutes without a word), but hilarious all the way. And to inspirit the combatants, Berghof has his Dancing Zany beat a drum during the dueling--an historically authentic touch. There are many other instances of inspired staging. And at the end, instead of having everyone exit and leave Feste alone to sing the closing song, Berghof brings everybody on stage, even Malvolio, and has each principal sing a solo bit as in a massed opera buffa finale...
What of the individual performances? It will come as no surprise that Siobhan McKenna's Viola is a gem. Someone once wrote that Violas are born, not made; and Miss McKenna is clearly a born Viola. She is a great enough actress not to have to worry that, at her first entrance, she not only doesn't move under her own power but is completely unconscious...
...Bevingtons met each other at rehearsals for the Lowell House Opera. "I was playing viola and my future wife was playing second fiddle," Bevington reminisced. They were married after Mrs. Bevington's junior year...
...season's premiere on July 10 will be Twelth Night, with Miss McKenna as Viola. July 30, she will appear as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. The Irish actress made her American debut in the title role of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...
...ideal Viola would have all the male members of the audience in love with her. I personally would not go to the ends of the earth for Miss Jefford, though others may; beyond doubt she is young, good-looking, and talented...