Word: agamemnon
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Dressed in street clothes, and reading from scripts, actors from across the East Coast presented the terse and complex rythyms of the verse drama that was the staple of the Poet's Theater, which closed in 1968. Two plays by Lowell Professor of Humanities William Alfred, "Agamemnon" and "Hogan's Goat," comprised the body of tonight's performances...
Academically we were journeyman students. Byand large we did the work, pulsing under theguiding hands of the faculty. Will any of us everforget John Finley '28 in his waltz across thestage as he described Agamemnon, (he laterdescribed an Eliot House senior as a cross betweenAchilles and Harry Truman), pivoting as he reachedstage end and swirling the cord of his microphonein a deft...
...When Agamemnon cried aloud...
This need is at the heart of tragedy. Orestes had to avenge the otherwise unpunished murder of his father, King Agamemnon. So did Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...
...Warner and Rauch's plans will keep them on surprisingly familiar turf--opposite sides of Brattle Street Rauch will spend the summer directing in the Agassiz. Warner is running the HRDC summer theater--a return of sorts to the group which had not accepted a show of his since Agamemnon, and whose internal politics he says helped spur him to work outside Harvard after sophomore year...