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...Bradley said that "King Lear" was too huge for the stage. He would presumably have applied this dictum to the stage of the Brattle Theatre Company. Yet that group, with the invaluable assistance of William Devlin, has managed to confine this great play within the limits of its stage. It has achieved that rarely attempted, even more rarely successful, feat a good production of Lear...
...time, none worthy of expert. The only American play in which he has appeared was O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1938. He prefers to see American plays done by Americans, because of "a certain vitality they give it." Of the recent American plays he's seen, Mr. Devlin was most impressed with "The Glass Menagerie...
Four and a half years in North Africa with the Horsed Cavalry, first as a trooper and later as a major, accounted for Mr. Devlin's war years. Since that time, he has done some Shakespeare with the Old Vic: Macbeth, Richard III, and King John... ("my voice limits me to the non-lyrical roles primarily."), and appeared in Walt Disney's all-human "Treasure Island," as yet unreleased...
...husband of one of apprentices at Brattle Hall is a friend and countryman of Mr. Devlin's and it was through him that our local players invited Devlin to appear. This will be his only appearance here, due to commitments in England and plans for taking "Murder in the Cathedral" to Rome for the Holy Year...
...people over at Brattle are understandably excited about this production, and at a rehearsal Sunday night some of them were moved to tears by Mr. Devlin's performance. This is surely the most ambitions local undertaking since the "Agamemnon" was given in Soldiers Field in 1906, and may prove to be the most momentous American Shakespearean production of the decade--Momentous not only in the appearance of William Devlin but in the ultimate "making" of the Brattle Hall group...