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Richard Watts of the New York Post occurred, recommending the Trojan War revue as 'a frequently entertaining evening of prankishness...
...Trojan Bull. A unanimous All-America in his junior year at Ohio State, Ferguson is bulldozing his way toward a spot on most All-America teams again, despite the fact that every Ohio State opponent has been laying for him. "In a way, it hurts the opposing team more than it does me," says the uncomplaining Ferguson-and his point was neatly proved fortnight ago. "We stacked our defenses on Ferguson," said Indiana Coach Phil Dickens. "We knew we had to stop him at the risk of weakening ourselves somewhere else." The result: while eight hulking Hoosiers jammed up close...
...York Journal-American blared forth in a banner headline: OFF BROADWAY GOES HARVARD. A couple of days earlier, a small box on The New York Times' theatre page had announced that "'Sing Muse', a musical that offers 'a new slant' on Helen and other matters leading up to the Trojan War, will open off Broadway in the first week of December...
...Electra is divided into heroes, gods and women. Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed. Before the play begins, Clytemnestra and her ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother reveals he is alive...
Hercules Replaced. The third story. The Exile, follows the plot outline of the original. Philoctetes, while discarding the names and reshaping the characters and the symbols-a guerrilla war substitutes for the Trojan War. the secret papers of a dead chief replace the bow of Hercules. The central conflict is played out by a young guerrilla fighter who is sent to a distant island to try to persuade an exiled leader to escape and return to the wars...