Edmund Kean (Apr 2003) Ben Kingsley - Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Edmund Kean was indeed a real actor--a phrase Sartre would relish; in fact he was the greatest actor of his early-19th-century heyday, a wiry former acrobat whose Shakespearean repertoire was small but apparently astonishing. A tireless drinker and philanderer, the actor was eventually forced to flee England on the heels of a scandal involving a politician's wife, a scenario that fuels one of the play's main themes. Kean's interpretations of parts like Shylock, Othello and Richard III so knocked the socks off his contemporaries that no less a luminary than Coleridge confessed that "to see Kean act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." THERE'S no reason to fear that Hollywood's Oscar-night canonization has turned Ben Kingsley's head. In ''Edmund Kean,'' the one-man show Mr. Kingsley has brought to the Brooks Atkinson, this actor refuses to behave like a Star - even though his role, that of the legendary early 19th-century tragedian and scoundrel, gives him every license to do so. Mr. Kingsley instead remains what he has been since first emerging at the Royal Shakespeare Company over a decade ago: an actor of quick intelligence and self-effacing humor who, in sharp contrast to some of his British peers, seems incapable of turning a performance into a mannered exercise in technique. NY Times 09/28/1983
Edmund Kean (Play) Ben Kingsley - Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Playbill / Program Date April 2003
Run: Sep 22, 1983 - Oct 29, 1983
Size 135 x 215 mm 106 Pages Lots of Cast and Show Info
Condition: Used Good 8/10
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