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Despite the play's grandiose scale, its best moments--and there are a number of good ones--come when the leads can shed the crowds, stop bellowing with all stops out, and play to one another as if they are, after all, really people. Brutus (Mark Bramhall) and Cassius (Thimas Weisbuch) are at their best in the confrontations both before and after Caesar's murder. In the first act, Weisbuch's wily Cassius, his eyes darting, his manner at once servile and cunning, convincingly lures Brutus into the conspiracy. And the meeting of the two great liberators who have become...
...looked like a regular hegira at Accra International Airport as 5,000 frantic Ghanaians cheered, "Welcome, King of the World! Welcome, Mohammed Ali!" Actually it was only that latter-day prophet, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 22, who speedily made clear that he likes Moslem women and customs. "I'm going to get me four wives and take them back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know...
From there he moves to analyses and reminescences of famous and less famous roles in his experience. His quick studies of Hamlet, Richard II, Cassius, Leontes,. The School for Scandal, and Chekhov are both practical and perceptive, helpful cribs for students as well as for actors. Particularly useful for this Loeb Shakespeare Festival is Gielgud's discussion of Lear, including in an appendix Granville-Barker's notes on the play, from the Old Vic production...
Heavyweight boxing champion Mohammed Ali, better known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, was to appear on the same program last night, but failed to appear for reasons unknown...
...this, the fault must lie chiefly with Seltzer, who allowed Mark Bramhall to play Brutus at the top level of intensity throughout the play. Bramhall gives every sentence weightiness, makes every speech momentous. It is with energy, not respect, that he controls the conspirators. His antics make Cassius seem calm by comparison. And in a second act where everyone--Bramhall, David Rittenhouse (Antony), Edwin Holstein (Octavius), and Thomas Weisbuch (Cassius)--is playing at fever pitch, where a ghost puts in an appearance, and where the prodigious battle scene takes up fully ten minutes, the play degenerates into a second-rate...