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...hardly see the seam between the set and music and the rest of the show, so perfectly do they mesh. For Thomas Babe has forged a magnificent Trojan Women out of many disparate elements--Greek theatre, American language, rock and roll music...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Trojan Women | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...Babe's adaptation adds the brass of the American idiom to Euripides' sterling verse, and every line rings true. His new version of Trojan Women is--from the brilliant sex metaphors of Cassandra's speech to Hecuba's point-by-point indictment of hypocrisy--incisive and beautiful dramatic poetry. It should be published...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Trojan Women | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...sheer drama of this play is so intense that it often makes the words of the script sound insignificant. The stage movement flows like burning lava. Babe is the rare director who can make a character say more in utter stillness than in long speeches. Time after time he strikes precisely the right movements, theatrical but true. His direction is smooth as a Rolls Royce and has the same quality of moving you without jarring you. When he uses shock, he uses it almost gently, to elict passion...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Trojan Women | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...lyrics, which I believe are by Babe, Timothy Mayer, and Hugh Buckingham, often stammer with varied rhythms, and are always clear and powerful...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Trojan Women | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Finally, this is a marvelous cast. Stephen Kaplan is all that an Aristophanesean leading clown should be--self-important, close to the earth, and terribly funny. Tom Babe adds a great deal of skill to a natural talent for comedy, and Dan Deitch gracefully fills the none-too-easy assignment of playing a god who is also a heavy. The chorus, led by Susan Channing, is not, like most Greek choruses, self-conscious and uncomfortably out of place, but perfectly at ease as it stands around the stage reciting, or lounges in the front row of the auditorium. And Lloyd...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Peace | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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