Word: clytemnestra
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...first U.S. professional production of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy was adorned by Dame Judith Anderson as a marvelously menacing Clytemnestra who turned the ball field into a nightmare-real landscape of bloody tragedy. The second night turned tears to laughter, with oldtime Comic Bert Lahr, 70, playing the Birds...
Just as Orestes murdered his mother Clytemnestra, the closest male relative is still often expected to avenge the family honor...
...play, Clytemnestra is not depicted as the traditional villainess but, according to Alfred, as "a good woman who, in a fit of rage over the death of her daughter, strikes Agamemnon, whom she blames for the loss...
Poor old Euripides shuddered in his urn again last night while a curiously halting and pigeon-toed bevy of our too-familiar Loebsters murdered Aegisthus, Clytemnestra and his play as well. He should be used to short shrift by now, though, after centuries of being mistranslated, misplayed and misunderstood...
Lynn Milgrim (Clytemnestra), on the other hand, did not perfect nearly so interesting a pose and had to settle for a mask of hauteur. The chorus was innocuous, which is something, and the play is short...