Word: cocteau
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...cocteau Orphee, Poets' Theater...
...Cocteau Orphee, Poets' Theater...
...Cocteau Orphee, Poets' Theater...
...setting Cocteau retains Thrace but he brings the action up, or perhaps the audience back, to the present. Orpheus, ably portrayed by Paul Schmidt as full of moodiness and intensity, becomes a young poet dissatisfied with success. In disgust he turns his search for meaning to the sayings spelled out by a horse which has followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely...
...that point Cocteau more or less returned to the original. Proserpine--rechristened Death and played by Nora Shattuck with an air of mystery and grandeur--sends Eurydice to hell, where Orpheus follows her to bring her back. But after the second disappearance of Eurydice and the death of Orpheus himself, Cocteau once more changes direction to add a comic scene involving a Police Commissioner, acted by Richard Gediman, and to tack on a finale which brings the principals back on the stage and explains some of the symbolism...