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Those who remember Earle Hyman's exemplary Horatio in the Festival's earlier production can only be disappointed by John Devlin's bland and colorless performance. Patrick Hines, who did Rosencrantz before, has moved up to Polonius. Given to excessive handclapping, he takes the easy way out and plays the role only for its comedy. Polonius is much more than the "foolish prating knave" Hamlet calls...
...with marvelous inflections by Patrick Hines, is the finest of the supporting cast. Margaret Phillips, lurking ominously on the periphery long before she speaks, is deeply penetrating as the widowed Queen Margaret. Terence Scammell is a strikingly handsome and clean-spoken Dorset; Tom Sawyer, a rich-voiced Clarence; John Devlin, a manly Hastings; and Rex Everhart, honing a dagger on his shoe, a memorable First Murderer. Jacqueline Brookes' Elizabeth, unimpressive in her earlier scenes, summons up the requisite power for the interview in which Richard seeks permission to wed her daughter...
...really shows their styles and turns. It has even adapted missile-tracking devices as one way to keep a camera trained on a sky diver falling at 160 m.p.h. And always, in any sport, the commentary is by an expert-a Stirling Moss, an Arnold Palmer, or an Art Devlin...
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