Word: cressida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorcees are the lovely Cynthia Karslake (Blythe Danner), a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock, and Vida Phillimore (Rosemary Harris), a playful past mistress of the chaise longue. Cynthia has become engaged to the divorced Mr. Phillimore (Stephen Collins), a man as stiff as the judicial bench over which he presides. Vida is on the prowl for the charm-charged divorced Mr. Karslake...
...Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel, who cast her in his 1912 Covent Garden production of Troilus and Cressida. Continuing to act until shortly before her death, Evans once remarked that she had always desired "a job I couldn...
...prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
...other play by Shakespeare has elicited such a wide spectrum of appraisals. It has become customary to group the work with the two that immediately preceded it--Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well--as "dark" or "unpleasant" or "problem" comedies. The 19th century was generally repelled by Measure, Coleridge going so far as to brand it "the only painful part" of Shakespeare's output and applying to it such words as "odious," "disgusting," and "horrible." Twentieth-century minds have been much more intrigued by the play--some proclaiming it a masterpiece, which...
...Tyrone began his long affiliation with the Old Vic in 1933. Later he helped launch the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He was an innovator who occasionally armed the bard's soldiers with machine guns and once staged Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian piece, replacing Greeks with Prussians. Though he also directed Broadway hits, Sir Tyrone castigated the Great White Way as "a murderous, vulgar jungle...