QUOTES
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL TIMES
LYRICS OF THE HEARTHSIDE
by
JOSEPH MYDELL
"Joseph Mydell's dramatic impersonation of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a classic. Working with an almost delicate precision, Mydell elevates the material with a dazzling performance of wit and charm."
-The Guardian
"Lively, absorbing and perfectly judged performance .... fascinating portrait of a man and his society through powerful theatrical imagination."
-Time Out
"Haunting, disturbingly contemporary.... simply not long enough."
-Times Educational Supplement
"Strikingly brilliant.... Mydell is an intellectual, elegant and often hilarious performer. (Winner of The Scotsman Fringe First Award, 1980)"
-The Scotsman
"Gripping, funny, moving and highly professional both in performance and technically.... A theatrical experience... He's Paul Laurence Dunbar." (Awarded for "The best Solo-peformance" by Festival Times at the 1980 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)
-Festival Times
"Outrageously talented .... his gracefulness, command and spirit are unassailably inspiring....just too good to be missed."
-West Indian World
Joseph Mydell as Paul Laurence Dunbar in "Lyrics of the Hearthside" puts poems, prose and songs of Dunbar together in an evening of highly impersonation: Dunbar alive...Dunbar on stage...Dunbar performing his works as he did throughout America and England. In England he collaborated with British composer Samuel Coleridge on a song cycle and an operetta and wrote lyrics for the Broadway show "In Dahomey" which came to London's Shaftesbury Theatre and later had a command performance at Buckingham Palace.
