Word: catharsise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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*All times E.S.T. achieves a catharsis hardly to be believed of a musical. The hand that guides it is Joan Littlewood's; the guiding spirit is Bertolt Brecht's.
Miller hopes his dramas will yield more than that "proper purgation of pity and fear" that Aristotle called catharsis. He hopes they will bring enlightenment to his audience. Peter Skolnik's production is loaded with pity and fear. He has put together an altogether stunning show. But understanding there is...
Not having read The Idiot, I cannot pass judgment on the fidelity of this 1951 film version by Akira Kurosawa, but even if I someday find that he and his co-writer took no liberties with Dostoevski's plot beyond setting it in twentieth-century Japan I doubt that I...
Kill the Father. An offbeat splinter group, the Academy of Psychodrama and Group Therapy, got into the act by staging a curtain raiser for the main meetings in the form of a Kafka-style reconstruction of the personalities and possible motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Said Manhattan...
The legend, however, was in little danger of being sentimentalized. And perhaps one of the reasons for that was the overwhelmingly detailed coverage of the assassination and burial. That in itself had been a kind of catharsis.