Word: atreus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...