Word: oresteia
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...first U.S. professional production of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy was adorned by Dame Judith Anderson as a marvelously menacing Clytemnestra who turned the ball field into a nightmare-real landscape of bloody tragedy. The second night turned tears to laughter, with oldtime Comic Bert Lahr, 70, playing the Birds...
...Adams House Drama Society's Oresteia is something special. Other productions this Spring have had skillful acting, direction and technical effects; this Sanders Theatre performance takes all these and combines them with intelligence...
Unlike the Oresteia of Aeschylus, in which Orestes heroically kills Clytemnestra to restore order, Orestes' matricide is set in a context where formal (although hollow) legality prevails. Orestes is at first sympathetic and wounded with guilt; in the course of the play his criminal nature is revealed. Euripides mocks the heroic ideal by showing Orestes' depravity and the depravity of those around...
...German film version of Goethe's Faust shown at the Loeb Theatre; for he had waged an ardent campaign to stimulate a fully staged production of this classic in Harvard's new playhouse. It is also fitting that his editorial appearing the day he was stricken dealt with Aeschylus' Oresteia; for it was occasioned by the forthcoming Adams House production, and concerned the work he loved most in the world...
...independent national sovereignties already obsolete? Are we not sick from centuries of mutual slaughter, heedless of our Cassandras, and only to be rescued from pursuing Furies by refuge in an orderly court of law where the wisdom of Pallas Athene can cast the deciding vote? Is the Oresteia of Aeschylus mere antiquarianism? Would that it were...