Word: walkerism
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That exciting disorientation is an aim shared by Walker, who is fascinated by the possibility that Dionysos might be earlier and more eastern than Hellenistic civilization...
...Maenads as a chorus of Asian women, and a silent Magna Mater figure onstage," Walker says...
...attention Walker pays to the feminizing influence of the god has led her to to one of her boldest directorial decisions: casting a female (Winsome Brown '96) as Dionysos...
...activity of the drama to its violent and destructive end--Agave blindly helps to rip apart her own son Pentheus, the leader of the city. It is a revolution, although without the specific aim of liberation ("I don't think of it in that 60s kind of way," Walker explains...
Even considering the enormous complexity of the play's issues and personae, Walker chose to cast mostly undergraduates. "In many ways professional actors are less interesting than student actors, particularly Harvard actors." Walker says she looked to local professionals only for the roles of older men--Cadmus and Tiresias, who ought to be physically convincing...