Word: aeschylus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While a Harvard undergraduate, Timothy Mayer '66 overhauled Aeschylus' Eumenides, the last part of the Greek playwright's Oresteia trilogy. The result is a sophisticated, irreverent interpretation called Red Eye. Last weekend at the Agassiz Theater, Orestes' flight from the furies and trial in the Athenian court underwent futher revision in director Patrick Tan's ambitions adaptation of Mayer's play...
...designed an intergalactic Gothic set in which to develop his complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of justice degenerates into a cocktail party where under-the-table arm-twisting subverts the Athenian ideal of justice. The furies are not beyond consoling themselves with booze, narcotics and yogurt, not is Orestes above Oedipal fantasies for the mother whome he has murdered...