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Gareth Lloyd Evans, in the
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 24.6.66.
Alan Howard's Orsino had a strained look,
undecided, one might guess, whether to be goodie or baddie. In the end he
turned out to be neither - just gaddy.
d'oh!!!!!!
Helen Dawson, in a
review of The Tempest, Plays and Players, December 1970.
.........the spirits' banquet was represented
by what looked like luminous tea cosies, which later went pop, and the
'majestic vision' of Ceres and her gang consisted of three near naked
gentlemen, in semi-darkness, with tinsel headgear, who looked as though they
had come down from the front of Selfridges on the night before
Christmas........
Oh dear! Cruelty, 'thy name is
woman!'
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From a 1968 review for As You Like
It
........some brilliantly inventive acting by
Alan Howard as the melancholy Jacques - at times incredibly like Clement Freud
....
!!! ?
D. A. N. Jones in The Financial Times,
23.6.67.
Jacques, played here, rather pretentiously, by
Alan Howard, an excellent actor in the right part (as in The Revenger's
Tragedy) but hard to cast......
Hmmmm! I wonder if he ever regretted writing
that!
The Times, 10.8.68
Described Alan Howard's Achilles as 'a renegade
German governess'.
Conjures up an interesting
vision!
On the subject of
Achilles - no, not the Daily Mail's famous 'frilly pants' quote!
Darlington in the Daily Telegraph, 10.8.68.
But I reacted very unfavourably to the handling
of Achilles, whose quarters were made the scene of some peculiar doings which
wasted a great deal of stage time.....
Poor, boring old critic!
Benedict Nightingale in The New
Statesman, 23.10.70.
"A most majestic vision!" cries Ferdinand, as
they materialise, and it is impossible to understand what he means. Three
nearly naked men, with what look like long straws in their hair, crooning in
the half dark? Majestic?
Oh dear! The Tempest strikes
again!
Fintan O'Toole, on Alan's role in
Gates of Gold - Irish Times,
2.5.02.
"His Gabriel is a fabulous hybrid, part exotic
orchid, part Triffid, at once delicately gorgeous and monstrously
voracious."
Quite a 'Little Shop of
Horrors'!
Carol Kramer: from
the Chicago Tribune interview with Alan on A Midsummer Night's Dream,
28.3.1971
...... Most grueling, perhaps, has been working
on the trapezes, ropes and ladders that Brook uses for this production. When
rehearsals began in Stratford, Brook simply had an 18-foot scaffolding put up,
with ropes and trapezes available for the actors' whims. Sometimes they bumped
into each other. But no one has fallen - yet. And Alan Howard is very
near-sighted. "What you don't see, you don't miss," he says
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