Word: absalom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary discovery. And it is most tantalizingly true of the years between 1928 and 1936. But those years mark a time of creative intensity unparalleled in American letters, when Faulkner turned out Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom...
...like his fellow Mississippian, William Faulkner, Donald speaks of a personal ambivalence toward many of the region's values. He cites Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! as one of the most eloquent expressions of "what it means to be a Southerner...
...lightness that evokes peaceful thought rather than turgid philosophy. In the first episodes David is called to the court of Saul, where his youth and charisma overcome all obstacles in his preordained drive to supremacy. The second act concerns David's own downfall at the hands of his son Absalom...
...production's success derives mostly from its energetic evolution of theme. The company obviously feels the conflicts they express, and their mimes and mimics seem to grow from their subconsciouses. The most compelling of these is a stylized reproduction of Ammon's rape of his sister that juxtaposes Absalom's revenge upon him. Touches like these take the play far beyond the straightforward narration in the script...
GENET, unable to adopt an unambivalent revolutionary stance, renders absurd the strident fury which grips the rebels, led by the vociferous Archibald Absalom Wellington. James Spruill, dynamicas Wellington, herds and coerces his wards like recalcitrant children. Only the black women, free from sexual ambivalence in their attitude toward the white Queen, can maintain a consistent level of vituperation and hatred. The ruling classes, perversely enough, are ennobled by their tenacious role consistency; directionless rage and degrading imitation is, in Genet's crypto-conservative vision, the lot of revolutionaries...