Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dionyshus (pupetecred> by Raphed Sperry), god of aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...
...decide whether to bring Aeschylus of Euripedes to Athens, Dionysius stages a competition to "weight" the merits of their poetry. Many had puns ensue. The clever Euripedes is too "light;" the more philosophical Aeschylus literally tips the scales with the heavy line: "Chariot on chariot, corpse on corpse was piled." Literary theorists theorists today could stand to learn a great deal from this Dionysian, beer-in-webbed-hand approach to criticism...
AUTHORS: EURIPIDES AND AESCHYLUS...
...makes her case in Les Atrides, a nine-hour cycle of four productions embracing Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides and the Oresteia trilogy of ! Aeschylus. Two years in the making -- including eight months of rehearsal -- the shows just completed a largely sold-out three-week run in Montreal and are virtually sold out for the troupe's New York City debut, ending Oct. 11. Mnouchkine, who works in an abandoned munitions factory in Paris and refuses to perform in a conventional theater, took Montreal spectators to a hockey arena. In New York, sponsors had to remove 375 military vehicles from...
Throughout the play, Tan resists placing his characters in simple, archetypical roles, cultivating instead the psychological complexities and hidden motivations that inform the resolution of Aeschylus' own version. Who would have suspected that Apollo would have to use an erotic tango dance to persuade Athena to side with him on Orestes' behalf...