Word: clytemnestras
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...vote to kill a man not there--a man who has bought and sold the human soul, yet dies a martyr for the truth. The viral truth his death was to conceal spreads and infects; like the worm of Solomon, it shatters only what resists it most. When Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra die, the victims of the ineluctable pest--"the right outstripped her strength"--, the weak remain to shield their dead from the night...
...clearer justice than our own, his Agamemnon suits the tuxedoed gentlemen and gowned ladies who made it live in the theatre as well as those, more colorfully garbed, who live it in less pellucid form outside. It is a world of diamantine retribution; the wages of Agamemnon's and Clytemnestra's infidelity are hard and glittering...
...same diabolic Moeris, leader of the Council of Regency, leader of the vote for death and of those who would shield their dead, who tells Clytemnestra: "See: all is well. / It is the tournament of open minds / That settles things." "And patience," adds the court poet Aegon. The mind harries Alfred's characters. "My mind is a burnt hand / That clutches for the evasive flame that burned it, / For that and nothing else." So Clytemnestra sees her love for the country beau, Aegisthus, who has unlocked her. In the end, when the diamond of justice has cut down the strong...
...Agamemnon. He had help: what we are and what we want to be took on separate bodies. Agamemnon (David Stone), tall, lean unhappy king is cousin to Aegisthus (Paul Schmidt), less unhappy, not at all king. Cassandra (Lynn Milgrim) wears the colors--saffron--of the dead daughter of Queen Clytemnestra (Frances Gitter). Further, the director had the help of superb actors--actors so strong individually that, for the most part, they could pool their strength in affecting their audience instead of competing to affect...
...moved. Her voice and presence simply filled the Loeb. To be sure, she left room for Agamemnon, Cassandra, and Aegisthus, but only David Stone, and at times Daniel Seltzer (Aegon), could command a place. One would have liked to see Lynn Milgrim alone, not overwhelmed; but even with Clytemnestra there, she spoke a Cassandra that thrilled...