Word: mercutio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romeo and Juliet, combining these with readings from the play. Mr. Manusevitch had obviously rehearsed this wonderful music thoroughly; except for some wretched brass playing in an andante section, all of the movements were well done. The speakers were also good, particularly Daniel Seltzer, who read an opening chorus, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and some of Friar Laurence's best lines. Lynn Milgrim Phillips made a charming Juliet, and Paul Schmidt an adequate Romeo, though his relentless theatricality became a bit tiresome...
...Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype of the company man, seems to have proliferated...
...pair of star crossed puppies, as they are in the Quincy House production, one may coo at their love scenes and pity them when they die, but they can inspire no greater emotion than puppies do. Life goes out of the play when its one full blooded character, Mercutio, dies, and we are left with what is at best a pretty little play, one that merely hints at tragedy...
...Mercutio, who bears the weight of the play upon his shoulders, is played by John Parker. He makes a valiant try, perhaps too valiant, for most of his energy seems undirected and wasted. And something must be done about his braying, villainous laugh. I know that rough edges are inevitable in a production cast almost entirely from one House but it is nonetheless a pity that one of them had to be Benvolio (Donald Scharfe). His announcement of Mercutio's death, one of the play's most poignant moments, he turns into a moment of near comedy. "Mercutio is dead...