Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
HAKESPEARE continued his Sunday night visits. to 3YL with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson. playing two scenes from Macbeth (without incidental music this time). It is, I suppose,
very difficult to know what you want Lady Macbeth to be like and at first that tendency of actors to let the voice vibrate within the ribcage can be irritating. But, one is accustomed to it, the Murder-or surely the Murrder, for in this the less soda the better-scene is surely the best dark scene anywhere in any language. These actors were not distinctively Scots, and for all the "others abide our question, thou art free" stuff I maintain that the play is; but Lewis Casson’s sometimes noticeably gentlemanly voice fits in admirably with the character of Macbeth, with his selfinduced villainy and his _ self-induced imagination.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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