Word: aeschylus
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Donahue has brought his outside experiences to his senior thesis project, a production of “The Oresteia,” based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, which will continue through May 27 on the Loeb Mainstage...
Rebecca J. Alaly ’04-’05 advertises her latest choreography work in “The Oresteia” as having “severed heads, dirt, blood, and meat.” The Loeb Mainstage Production, based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, tells a tale of murderous revenge within a single family...
...musical version of Aristophanes originally staged in a swimming pool at Yale in 1974, is that he?s turned it into a play about George W. Bush. In the Greek original, Dionysos, the god of theater, travels to the underworld to choose which of Athens? two late, great playwrights, Aeschylus or Euripides, should return to earth. Shevelove updated it by making the battle between George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare. Lane keeps those playwrights but adds a twist: Dionysos wants to bring back Shaw to help save the nation from its current troubles - namely...
...action-packed first half proves more entertaining than the second—when the bards engage in a poetry competition that deals with topics like whether Aeschylus or Euripides uses a more inventive meter. While The Frogs adds diversion with tap-dances, drag muses and impressively over-the-top poetry recitations in the second half, the descent to hell is inherently more dynamic...
...cast members’ closets (instead of a lion skin, Hercules makes do with a fake leopard skin jacket). The staging has likewise been updated; Dionysus brandishes a copy of Let’s Go Hell, the infernal judge Aeacus is an Army drill sergeant, and the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides is presented as a game show. While bizarre, these settings make good sense; the Chorus political moralizing is far more palatable when presented as part of a protest by flower children, and it only makes sense that the ferrier to the land of the dead (Ian Maisel) would...