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Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Lakewood, Ohio: Measure for Measure Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Season ends Sept...
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...Murphy, with a green dress and long platinum hair, and decked out with jewels and bangles, is an ominously loyal Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's chief nurse. As the King's guardian Pothinus, potbellied Patrick Hines is admirably sly and nasty. Philip Bosco is the brusque and exuberant Roman officer at Caesar's side. Richard Woods, with the prescribed blue garb and drooping mustache, is hilarious as Caesar's English secretary Britannus; he is stuffily Macmillanesque as he spouts such things as Disraell's "peace with honor...
Having said all this about Caesar and Cleopatra, I feel compelled to protest its appearance at a "Shakespeare Festival." The American Shakespeare Festival was founded with the single purpose of mounting the plays of Shakespeare; this is what it has done for eight years, and this is what it should do for the next eighty...
...false name. Let it become, say, the American Festival of Playwrights Whose Names Begin with S-H-A. Then it can offer not only Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw but also Irwin Shaw and Shairp and Shakhovsky and Shadwell. But when a so-called American Shakespeare Festival puts on Caesar and Cleopatra, the proper comment can only be "Pshaw...