Word: erechtheum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chorus, a kind of corps de ballet of 14, chants in Greek and uses body English to underscore, but not undercut, the action. In their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets...