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...sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both in voice and manner, and that is all Menelaus demands. He runs into trouble as soon as he puts on a longer beard to appear again as Agamemnon; he can't swagger anymore, and he stands still and speaks inaudibly...
William Alfred, associate professor of English, has written three plays while at Harvard. The first, an impressive retelling in verse of an old story, was composed in 1953 while Alfred was still a teaching fellow; simply titled Agamemnon, it was produced in Sanders by the Poets' Theater. The Poets' Theatre in 1958 also staged Hogan's Goat, which Alfred had finished the previous year; this at times highly moving tragedy slipped too far into melodrama for complete success. A third play, The Runaways, begun in 1954, has gone through nine revisions...
...Prodigal. One of the best plays seen in Manhattan in many seasons reaches with temerity into the house of Atreus for its central figures: Orestes, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus. The dress is Argive; the address is modern...
...Prodigal. A 25-year-old playwright named Jack Richardson has written one of the best plays seen in Manhattan in many seasons, reaching with temerity into the house of Atreus for his central figures: Orestes, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus. The dress is Argive; the address is modern...
...Prodigal. As Playwright Duncan is drawn to fantasy, Manhattan-born, 24-year-old Jack Richardson (Columbia '57) is drawn to myth: with the courage of youth, he has walked straight into the house of Atreus to kidnap King Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Electra. But what might have been merely a leached-out academic exercise is a fresh, deeply written play that uses classical means for a 20th century statement...