Love Warms Antioch's Stage In "Antony And Cleopatra"
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
August 17, 1953
August 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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The love heat of "Antony and Cleopatra" sprawls about all of Shakespeare' s world, and somewhat warm bits of it were shown Saturday night when the Antioch Area Theatre offered the play last in the series of Shakespeare-under-the-stars at Yellow Springs. Dorothy Laming, a professional actress in southwestern Ohio since 1939, lends her physical excitement to an assorted number of Cleopatra costumes that cover her in some places, and her walk and bodily manner toss lust all around the stage. Her voiced manner, unfortunately, is not so successful. Too much of her in the earlier scenes is the little girl playing the sex-dripping older sister rather than the other way around. In her final moments, however, an unusual nobility and beauty is achieved...
The love heat of "Antony and Cleopatra" sprawls about all of Shakespeare' s world, and somewhat warm bits of it were shown Saturday night when the Antioch Area Theatre offered the play last in the series of Shakespeare-under-the-stars at Yellow Springs. Dorothy Laming, a professional actress in southwestern Ohio since 1939, lends her physical excitement to an assorted number of Cleopatra costumes that cover her in some places, and her walk and bodily manner toss lust all around the stage. Her voiced manner, unfortunately, is not so successful. Too much of her in the earlier scenes is the little girl playing the sex-dripping older sister rather than the other way around. In her final moments, however, an unusual nobility and beauty is achieved...
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