Word: aegistheus
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Sartre explains the situation. Orestes returns to Argos with his tutor and discovers the town still guilt ridden over the murder of his father. The town is preparing for its yearly ritual of penance. Orestes watches Electra vent her long standing hostility toward Aegistheus and Clytemnestra, and he begins his own debate with Zeus. Orestes is at this point an intellectual observer--detached, ironic, rational...
...Orestes observes the rite, during which Electra defies Zeus by performing a joyous dance. Just as the town is nearly liberated from its guilt by her own freedom, Zeus makes a sign of his presence, and Electra fails. But her dance nonetheless forces Orestes to murder Aegistheus and Clytemnestra. Aegistheusis too weary of repentence to resist...
Myra Rubn, as Electra, possesses the same virtues. Sartre's characters express no psychological insight, but act on the basis of moral imperative. Miss Rubin makes Electra understandable at least in Sartre's terms. Anne Lilly Kerr and Philip Rhodes, as Clytemnestra and Aegistheus, were far from subtle. But their performances, again were sound and moving...
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