...Eileen Blumenthal Copyright © by yale/theater 1974 1974 The Presence of the Character: The Robert Montgomery/Joseph Chaikin Hectra Eileen Blumenthal Electra (Michele...

...Susan Mendelsohn The following interview was conducted after the first stage of an ongoing project, an adaptation of Euripides' Electra incorporating rap music, developed with students at a New Haven high school. Since Susan Mendelsohn has functioned on this project as playwright, dramaturg...

... (Prometheus); and Euripides has turned into empty resistance to a despotic governmental archaeological commentary-and faulty decree (Antigone); a challenge by a commentary at that. Both the Greek stronger individual (Electra versus Cly• National Theatre and the Piraikon...

... words. The Greek playwrights left this part of the story virtual• ly untouched because of their reverence for Homer. Next, there is Aeschylus' Agamemnon. As befits the most famous play in our cycle, this is altered the least from its original. Electra in our Electra is a composite based on Sophocles...

... historical Daste's costumes. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were dressed "a vision of the Oresteia, we have to ask ourselves, "What did history la barbare," Orestes, Electra and Apollo were draped in robes like mean to the Greeks?" Barthes believes that we can confront this fifth-century Athenians...

... to decide how to accommodate the chorus in his production. Within the last year Britain has witnessed a great awakening of interest in Greek drama. Not only have productions of Antigone, Oedipus, and Electra appeared in the repertoire of the provincial theaters, but the major institutions have...

... wrote “LaVie du Son” when we did theElectra, in 1973. Electra deals with an individual, with a private, personal theme. The Trujan Women deals with the loss of a civilization. A whole culture is disappearing. We asked ourselves, “what is the meaning of the loss of a nation?” We used cries...

... and Dramatic recently served as Dramaturg for Jorge Cacheiro's production Criticism at the Yale School of Drama. He was the founding of Electra. Artistic Director of the American Ibsen Theater (1982-85).He...

... and Dramatic recently served as Dramaturg for Jorge Cacheiro's production Criticism at the Yale School of Drama. He was the founding of Electra. Artistic Director of the American Ibsen Theater (1982-85).He...

...- Clytaemnestra, Iphigenia, Cassandra, and Electra-tend to be much livelier, more natural, and far less posed. If anything, they avoid self-indulgent exhibitions of power, and try to express instead their distinctive humanity, which of course makes them vulnerable to patriarchal violence. Orestes’s costume...

..., and clever. You realize, suddenly at the end, that she as Electra? gets everything she wants. She’s almost too clever. But we must remember: she did want to get rid of NITYANANDAN When I move from one role to the this curse...

... to four or five plays; they always stage Electra, Medea, Oedipus, little more. But Niels-Peter Rudolph's Antigone, Berlin, 1979. 21 there are over thirty Greek tragedies from which...

... smells, our world! In the tragedy of Sophocles The Protogonist may die, but his fall is also the occasion for an action of heroic proportions. Though Oedipus dies, his death is both illuminating and ennobling. In the later tragedy of Euripides the same dignity is missing. Like Electra...

... with Gershwin, Kaufman, and Astaire. audaciously intelligent productions of Electra, Gaunt and delicately mannish, Fiona Shaw The Good Person ofSzechwan, Hedda Gabler, and appeared before us like a specter in occult dis- most recently, a controversial Richard II. (A few tress. The production was not so...

... such episodes during his years as the theater critic of The New the best known of the O’Neill parodies: a humorous alternative York Times), only here by means of some comic tampering and to Mourning Becomes Electra, the massive tragedy which an arrangement that is to a sequence of individual scenes what...

... physiologie du mariage. In both tragedy and comedy the turning point is the recognition Nora's sole confidant is Dr. Rank. Only in his company does she scene which precedes the final resolution. In all the Electra plays a feel at ease, and she even goes so far as to "put a macaroon in his...

... compete with reality. Shakespeare Festival, done in Central You have to create a framework that says Park in 1964. We did another Electra on this is the stage, and within that frame- the Mobile Unit with essentially the same work you present the reality or environ...

... been in a constant state of devel• professors of literature, including myself, opment and change. The Electra story, have been by the reworking of Shake• for example, was dramatized by Aeschylus, speare. then by Sophocles, and then by Euripides, each treatment a brand...

... short: 100 guilty or not guilty. To plead guilty or Electra, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Coionus, Agamemnon. 0 ne of the most out the Chorus; it is ritualistic and extraordinary, mad plays of Euripides, liturgic, but it makes no sense to simu• Orestes, has never, to my knowledge...

..., speaking in the name of Electra who retracts the world she gave birth to. Fort- inbras entered wearing a golden helmet...