Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remaining flaws of this production are minor, and exclusively on the side of execution rather than conception. The chorus blocking, for instance, still needs work, as do several of the long speeches, but one has every right to expect these problems will soon be corrected...
...every right because Mayer has assembled a truly magnificent little cast, distinguished by an incredible variety of voices. Foremost among the voices is that of Yolande Bevan, who lifts the chorus to her own extraordinary level, but not much less distinctive are the speaking styles of Edward Finnegan and Donald Marye, as Cadmus and Teiresias. The best performance of the lot, however, has to be that by Patricia Cutts, who bravely circumvents the sort of theatrics to be expected in a woman who has killed her son and partaken of his remains...
...Relations, said that the only just solution for Vietnam is to end negotiations and withdraw immediately and totally. Since McCarthy's aim "from the outset" was to lead a campaign is "only shadow boxing." "Nice guy McCarthy has a minor tactical difference with Johnson," he continued to a rising chorus of boos. "McCarthy's movement is over now. McCarthy exists as a feeble support for Humphrey, afraid, as he says, to go all the way in support because the kids will think he's sold out," Schwartz said...
...guest of honor nibbled on white grapes, and when her companion asked the band to play Adios Compagnia, she joined the bittersweet chorus. The candles guttered in their pink crystal holders, and then there was only the moon to illumine the close faces around the silvery deck...
...highly stylized language, and make unfortunate attempts to naturalize it--leaving it stilted and often absurd. The blacks--played by about 15 members of Boston's New African Company -- are effective when overtly menacing, but otherwise confused and distracting, never successfully realizing the foreboding eerie simplicity of a Greek chorus...