Word: wife
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...frustrated father. At times Ellsworth seems a bit stiff--his two major rages are almost identical in gesture and intonation--but on the whole, and particularly in the final scene, he is the focal point of the production. Belle McDonald quietly excels as the dominated, insistent and wholly unfair wife, a woman who gains no satisfaction from her marriage and constantly looks back to her happier days as a single girl in a devoted family...
...other master stroke by which Chekhov gets the audience to be his collaborator lies in his intuitive understanding that the only undying love is unrequited love. In Uncle Vanya, Vanya (William Hutt) is desperately smitten with Elena (Martha Henry), wife of the crabbed Professor Serebriakov (Max Helpmann), who is many years her senior. Not out of any binding moral scruples, Elena treats Vanya's advances with lacerating indifference. Sonya (Marti Maraden), Vanya's niece, has adored Dr. Astrov (Brian Bedford) for six years, and he has never been aware of it for six seconds. Astrov in turn lusts...
...honor to be a trusted host to Duncan, the King, Macbeth swoops on his sleeping sovereign and murders him. As the new King, he wheels on his best friend, Banquo. When a mettlesome foe, Macduff, threatens him, Macbeth's talons are unsheathed to mortally savage Macduff s wife and her entire brood. Finally, all Scotland falls bleeding prey to his gashing beak...
Play: Harvard Summer Repertory Theater--The Country Wife, by William Wycherly. 8 p.m., Loeb Drama Center. $5, $6, $7.50. Through August 19 (Tues...
WHEN WE LAST left the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, Keith had run afoul of some unpleasant Canadian gentlemen, who seemed to think he was pushing heroin, while Mick was off chasing, well, Some Girl other than his wife, and in general playin' the field every night. The Rolling Stones (remember them, the guys who used to piss in gas station lots and who now get followed in People Magazine), had just released a classic double-live record made up mostly of fold hits but had otherwise been impotent in the studio, fielding only tepid records like Black...