Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 19, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Tuesday. Jojne u. Ims Stratford Macbeth defeats Plummer of hair Given Well Betow the usual. 81 by Christopher Dafoe Stratford. Ont. Staff Shakespeare s Macbeth form part of an elizabethan tradition of blood Thunder and roaring violence. The violent product a violent age it was first p diced in a London that for years had revelled in theatrical Baths like Kyd s spams tragedy Marlowe s Tamburine and the terrific concoctions monday Greene and others. The londoners who first a Macbeth counted Public bang Ings at which the victim w Cut Down living and final drawn and quartered Amon their chief entertainments to rotting Heads on London bring were a daily reminder of the shortness of life and the Loade plague wagons spoke constantly of death and the hereafter. It was also a superstitious a and when Shakespeare put Trio of wierd Sisters on the Stag it is quite Likely that they wer taken seriously by. The sweat crowd in the theatre. It is als possible that Shakespeare him self saw the weird Sisters a something More than a Gaggle t ugly spinsters. A Good Hundred or More years Laier or. John son Bright Star of the at o reason was known to tap of Good Luck on posts that he Pas sed on the Street. Members of the audience o 1962 most of whom scoff a witches and ghosts Are mor difficult to take in. It is for Thi reason perhaps that Macbeth is one of the most difficult o Shakespeare s plays to bring of i have seen More productions o Macbeth than of any othe Shakespeare play and i have yet to see a fully successful one. Let blood splash the actor who takes on the almost impossible role of Mac Beth is tempted to follow two obvious courses of action. First he can pull out All the stops ant let the blood splash where i May. This we Call ranting. The second course of action involves dedicated under playing deep thought and almost no display of emotion. This could be called the Post Freud attack. I think i have seen enough of Macbeth to know that both these methods fail. Somewhere Between the two lies the Middle ground the promised land the Ideal Macbeth. I m still waiting for some Columbus to discover in for me. Christopher Plummer at the opening of the 10th season of the a daily reminder of the monday night explored All three methods and came a Cropper. In act one from the moment he stepped onto the stage he was a mass of quivering Hyst Eria a Man without Bones or muscle a Man made of Jelly a tremble at the thought of impending Good Fortune. Enter lady Macbeth Kate Stout firm Manly. The quivering Mac Beth fastens himself to her like a Leech buries his face in the folds of her skirt and seems almost to suck the Iron from her when he is not hiding his face he is darting about the stage like a billiard Bali bouncing off Walls canyoning through door ways. Act two finds him crowned and Robed a sort of quietly Des Perate Monarch. But lady m has begun to crack and we watch her carefully half expecting her to Bury her face against his Chest and begin the sucking bit All Over again. In act we find or. Plum Mer groping about in the Middle ground in search of the True Macbeth. And Here he very nearly finds him. Far too late but it is far too late in the Day for profitable discovery the major damage has been done. We have witnessed the sad spectacle of an actor in search of a character and the play hangs in tatters. In All this wasteland however there Are some areas of Green by. Kate Reid As lady Macbeth strikes fire time and again especially in the sleepwalking scene. Bruno Gerussia finds some Fine moments As Macduff and Eric Christmas As a tottering Porter provides some horrible merriment. Director Peter Coe has been looking at the russet hued paint Ings of Pieter broughel and All his Tableaux have that death haunted look that hangs like a pall Over the flemish master s pictures. His tight groupings of soldiers and peasants a la Breu gel however cramp the flow of action and suggest nothing so much As a group of medieval choristers about to break into a chorus of Eloyda Jolly rut Terkin. In the final act when director Coe sets them free they become a swirling army the stage comes to life and things happen As they should. One Appeal granted one fails the Manitoba court of Appeal monday granted one Appeal against sentence but denied another. Charles Edward sentenced May 15 in Minnedosa by magistrate b. P. Mcdonald to 18 months in Brandon jail for the theft of tools to the value of about had his sentence reduced to nine months. Albert Blackbird at present serving 18 months for forgery and theft was told he must serve out his term unless he receives time off for Good be Havior. A special word of Praise should be reserved for Martha Henry who appears briefly but memorably As lady Macduff. Miss Henry is new to Stratford but with this appearance she wins her spurs. Who some Fine performances at Strat Ford gave us. Alas listless Banquo. of fled to appear As a ghost to the banquet scene we hardly missed nun. The Standard of acting among the lesser lights in the cast was Well below the Standard the costumes by Brian Jack son were As usual splendid and Eye filling. But Tor an Ideal Mac Beth i shall have to wait for tomorrow and probably for to Morrow and tomorrow. Reports on controlling arthritis i _ _ a _ Srin about 67 per cent of a Beuma cases can be cured a great Many told arthritis Cam can be cob a trolled a Montreal doctor monday. Or. De Guise Vailencourt Here to attend the annual meeting of Tot Canadian rheumatism association mid in an interview that while Only a minority of arthritic can be controlled. For example i would say that about 95 per cent of cases of gout can be he said cortisone and its derivatives were used in the treatment of arthritis but they were not usually our first line of or. 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