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Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Aias | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...Albion, Pa., "whole roofs just exploded," said Fire Fighter Fred Kiedaisch. "There was debris 100 feet in the air -- houses, trees, poles, even outboard motors." Afterward, police canine teams searched the rubble for bodies. They found nine, with 20 still missing by morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whole Roofs Just Exploded | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Judgement of Paris and the tale of the wooden horse--two eminently more interesting anecdotes from the Trojan War--Shakespeare begins his story seven years into the conflict when armed engagement has reached a standstill. Both armies entrench while their respective leaders reconsider their strategies. Ulysses (Adam Smith Albion), a sort of Greek Henry Kissinger, formulates a plan which will serve the dual purpose of reanimating the Greeks best fighter, the now lazy and spaced-out Achilles (Patrick Bradford), as well as do away with the Trojan he-man Hector (Maja Hellmold...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Shakespeare Straight & Tragic | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...more traditional vein, Albion is a revelation as Ulysses. Strutting around the stage to the delight of his fellow Grecians as well as the audience. Albion felicitously slides into character. Because Ulysses is unmistakibly Shakespeare's favorite character Albion has the bard's most eloquent prose an his dispoal, of which he takes full advantage...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Shakespeare Straight & Tragic | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

Second only to Albion are P. Brien Lasolino as Thersites, the urchan fool who serves as a go between for the Grecian and Trojan camps, and NIck Lawrence as Pandarus. As written by Shakespeare, Thersites provides the audience with a running commentary cum critique of the main players in the tragedy. Pondering on what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Shakespeare Straight & Tragic | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

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