... too often fails to reach that imposes a desolatingly mechanical effect on his whole performance. The lifelessness of his speaking explains, I think, why he seems only the pale counterfeit of the Hamlet we recognize instantly in many widely different readings ...

... capable of doing is to spe; the blank verse of Shakespeare unaffectedly, as boys and underg; dilates have often been heard to speak it, trusting that given a good 'livery of the verse the interest of drama and character auto matical i follow. Mr. Richardson ...

... own jokes, the hearers grow glum. John Gielgud has avoided this. We are spared ripple and trill and chuckle. Playing and speaking are gay, but, for most of the time, without self- consciousness. It is only in the broader fooling that we find any sense ...

... all 's well again, with the Dream basking in the best of weather gently now, I 'm 4 talking of last week Robert Eddison to speak Oberon as finely as we have heard it in recent years, and Mr. Atkins and the mechanicals of Athens-cum-Arden galumphing through ...

... SHAVINGS (St. Martin's IT sounds almost like a touring revue. Why not speak simply of a Shaw Triple Bill This is an in-and-out evening. The Man of Destiny is that tedious anecdote about the young Napoleon I am sorry to say that the acting increases the ...

... Falstaff has gTown more confident, and Richard Burton's Hal is as restrained as before. Again, Harry Andrews's King Henry now speaking magnificently the invocation to Sleep commands I the Stratford stage. Alan Badel's I Shallow, a husk of a man, is well J ...

... GERMANY: Spared the controversies of 1980, when the jury were blamed for their timorous selections, the 1981 festival of German-speaking theatre in Berlin passed off in relative calm. Apart from the world premiere of Peter Greiner's Keitz (from Cologne) and ...

... is no space to speak, though I am inclined to think, with due allowance for their period, that Mr. Hesketh Pearson rather underrates them. -ORNiNG Star, Mr. J. L. Hodson's latest book (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) is a daily newspaper. It speaks fearlessly, attacking ...

... is very hot. They arrange for an hour's truce, come down to the river banks. There is more, but the film should be left to speak for itself. Never was war shown to be more futile. ...

... discovered to his horror that the adjudication was in Welsh, and. as they don't speak Welsh in Cwm, he couldn't understand a single word of it. Fortunately, a Welsh-speaking stage hand could, and Spinetti, naturally hoping to hear he had done well, asked ...

... modern comedy. Pinero's dialogue is here at its most rounded and ornate. The play calls for a special style of acting and speaking for a fullness, an authority to which the contemporary stage is unused. Personally, I do not find Tanqueray tiresome I find ...

... a matter for debate. We have been used either to noisy Macbeths or to actors who treat the part as an exercise in verse- speaking. Olivier is at once warrior and haunted unconscious poet nobody in our day has probed Macbeth so deeply. The opening, in ...