Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this context, the voices of feminist scholars must be included in the chorus of the academy. Not to make people feel more comfortable, as the Harvey Mansfields of the world charge, but to create better scholarship and better universities...
...deserve credit for assembling such a large crew and paying attention even to smaller details on the standard (read: miserly) Loeb Ex budget of $550. Not only is the costuming more or less appropriate to the period, but Costume Designer Melanie Martinez has paid as much attention to the chorus as the principal players. Lighting Designer James Gwertzman has resisted the impulse to use overly dramatic lighting while managing to make effective use of lighting to distinguish mood changes...
...chorus of complaints is sure to follow the proposal of any "sin tax," designed to increase the price of such products as cigarettes and alcohol. But when the status quo facilitates destructive and often lethal behavior, we don't think such measures are that...
...banished Medea, appears as a sleazy politico with a carefully blow-dried hairdo. He thunders that "the best things in life are family and country." Vilhauer's glib, funny performance suggests Medea as a figure in rebellion against conventional morality and "family values" fascism. A contemporary poem which the chorus recites to open the show similarly connects Medea's story to issues of abortion and societal restrictions on women...
Valerie Weinstein's direction and Yvonne Roemer's choreography of this production are also only partially successful. The characters' movements, even in the segments involving no dancing, are highly stylized--Medea waves her arms in ostentatious anger and the chorus members clutch their stomachs when Medea mentions killing her children. This type of exaggerated, ritualistic movement is apparently in recognition of the classic origins of the play...