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When Banquo (Richard Blau) and Macbeth (John Lithgow) first appear, for instance, they stand so close together as to be actually touching. After the salutation of the weird sisters Banquo always stands across the stage from Macbeth. That last is simple enough. It was their extreme closeness at first that was so good, both because they had just returned from fighting side by side in a battle, and because when they do draw apart at the witches' greeting it as if the better and the evil part of one-man were differentiating themselves...
Carl Nagin too, who played Macduff, has a good voice and a fine sense of timing. The form employed them well. Blau's Banquo has an air about him that suggests great insight and great sorrow...
Perhaps the most admirable thing about the production is that director Richard Blau and his cast have faced all the problems of the play directly. Blau might easily have turned the play into a shocker, or a melodrama, but he has aimed instead for simplicity, letting the plot do the work...
...great voices in the cast, but the reading, directed by Joel Martin, was done with considerable polish. Barry Forman (Everyman) read his part very intelligently. He had one of the least distinct voices in the cast, but made up for it by acting more than anyone else. Richard Blau's wonderfully reserved reading of Death stood out from several good performances in minor roles...
...Under Blau's leadership, the Neturei Karta sided with the British and the Arabs against Israel's struggle for independence, and it now holds that Jerusalem is an extraterritorial city under U.N. jurisdiction. "I do not recognize Israel de jure or de facto," says Blau. "The worst part of the Jewish state is that what all the nations of the world did not succeed in doing during the years of exile, Israel is now doing. The gentiles wanted to sever Jews from the Torah but did not succeed. Zionists are now succeeding. It is heresy...