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Addesa and his posse swaggered into Bright two weeks ago and rode back to Troy, N.Y., with a 4-0 victory. Cleary's Crimson was silenced in its own town...
Outlook:The little Engine could last time against Harvard. Two weeks ago, the boys from Troy (minus Helen) stormed past the Crimson, 4-0, in Bright Center of all places...
...love?") clash with the neoclassicism of the set and costumes. The plot is a sour inversion of the lovers' tangle in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Orestes (Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy, who in turn loves Achilles' son Pyrrhus (Peter Eyre). But Pyrrhus, although betrothed to Hermione, has insulted his fellow Greeks by offering his heart and throne to Andromache (Janet Suzman), widow of the Trojan prince Hector, and by sparing her son Astyanax, the last male of the royal house of Troy...
...avowed in the opening scenes, only hers is steadfast. As portrayed by Suzman, Andromache's immersion in the past is not weak or dreamy but sexy and compelling. In the end, the enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson thrust the audience into a world askew, and the force that has caused the upheaval -- the dizzying...
...Jerry: RPI Coach Mike Adessa said that if the ECAC allowed trades, he would make a deal for Harvard defenseman Don Sweeney. If Adessa ever thinks of trading for Crimson defenseman Jerry Pawloski also, Harvard will probably ask for the entire RPI hockey team, along with the city of Troy, N.Y., plus a free trip to Hawaii in return...