Twelfth Night (Vol. 26) | Sombre Complexion
SOMBRE COMPLEXION
"Our Olivia is a stately lady of sombre complexion, slow-moving and of few sympathies." (All, you will note, what Madame Lopokova, who prompted the analysis, is not likely to have been.) The Stratford-upon-Avon Olivia was a dizzy girl—and though this may have worked in the case of Miss Geraldine McEwan, the 1958 Olivia I did not see, it certainly did not work in the 1960 variorum, in less accomplished hands. And but for disheartening a pretty young player who was, I suspect, obeying her producer, I would leave the matter to Olivia there. Fortunately, there is a part of another kind to which Miss Barnett would be admirably suited and any management looking for a juvenile lead to enter the drawing-room with a tennis racket in Act I and leave it with a cocktail in Act III, need search no further.
The Orsino of Mr. Derek Godfrey found its true length at once. He made a fine striding figure of a lover who would certainly have had the guts to do...
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