Word: amphitryon
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...Amphitryon 38 is a delightfully adulterous story about gods as gods, gods as mortals, gods as lovers, and woman as Goodness. The Lowell House Drama Group's production of Giraudoux's retelling of the Amphitryon myth (supposedly the 38th version of the tale), while often sloppy and heavy, maintains much of the warmth and high spirit of the script, and is very funny...
...dearest dear." sang the baritone to the soprano at West Berlin's Deutsche Opera Berlin last week, "a triumph awaits you." As a prophet, Baritone Thomas Stewart was only half right. For their roles in Composer Giselher Klebe's opera Alkmene, a modern version of the Amphitryon legend, triumph awaited both Texas-born Stewart and his wife. Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear. Raved the influential Frankfurter Algemeine: "What Evelyn Lear as Alkmene and Thomas Stewart as Jupiter attained belongs among the most glorious achievements in all Berlin opera...
...sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following night new Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner was not so lucky. He bowed in with avant-garde Composer Giselher Klebe's new opera, Alkmene, an academic, humorless scoring of the ribald Amphitryon legend, in which that incorrigible old satyr Jupiter turns himself into Amphitryon's double to woo Amphitryon's handsome wife...
...theater director who, with such other unknowns as Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Joshua Logan, helped start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on -to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan...
Giraudoux's style has some notable qualities. Amphitryon 38 is a farrago of dramatic styles. Giraudoux merges realism with history, legend with fantasy, and the lyrical with the intellectual and philosophical. His unique talent imbues the erudite classical and rational with the whimsical, imaginative and romantic--distilling a sparkling essence of originality and spontaneity. He analyses the psychology of love with occasionally brilliant and penetrating flashes of Oscar Wildean wit, epigrams and repartees, and unmasks man's soul with inquisitive glee, showing sympathy and understanding of human character. His rainbow play sheds a radient vision and has an unmistakably French...