Word: alkmena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing very deep or subtle is explored in the play, just sex. Jupiter (Alex Hawthorne), having recently seduced Leda as a swan, gives his attention to the problem of conquering Amphitryon's wife, Alkmena (Nancy Wolff) as a man. But all the wiles and devices of the immortal lover fail to destroy what Jupiter calls Alkmena's "pathetically constant" love for her Amphitryon...
Jupiter's eye, and that of the audience, is constantly on Alkmena, and the highly appealing Miss Wolff richly rewards the attention. Taking full advantage of the humorous potential of ancient Greek characters conversing in mid-twentieth century American language, she is bewitching, beguiling and alluring, and altogether worthy of a god's love...