Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play Cicero which opens tonight in the Samuel Beckett Theater in New York City is historically accurate, in large part it will be due to Bailey's efforts. As an official consultant for the play, he has given those involved advice on exactly how to make the play true to Rome in the first century...
...opening night this evening, Bailey will see the fruit of his efforts. "I'm not much of a theater-goer. I've never been to an opening night before," he says. "One is a little nervous about how the play will go--one hopes it is reasonably well-received," the British-born scholar says...
Segal, who wrote the play, asked Bailey questions about everything Roman, from specific historical details to broad societal customs. Segal said, "In that period of the Roman Republic, much like the present, divorce was rampant. Cicero's daughter was divorced from her husband, and I wanted to know exactly how divorce took place. Shackleton said that all someone had to do--either the husband or the wife--was say they wanted a divorce, and that was that...
Segal says that Bailey was especially helpful with those little details that you just can't find in history textbooks. "I wanted to know what the Romans did when they saw each other. Did they shake hands? Did they embrace?" Segal says Bailey explained to Segal that Romans would join their right hands but this was not an everyday occurence...
Over the last two years, Bailey met with Segal a number of times, and recently also met with the actor who will portray Marcus Tullius Cicero, the star of the show...