Word: colonus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working with a small stage, Brooks has expertly handled the problem of the chorus, ably led by Richard Smithies. In this play the chorus functions not only as a group of commenting onlookers but also as Elders of Colonus who participate in the dialogue. The distribution of lines among them is wisely varied: they speak sometimes singly or by twos, sometimes in unison. The celebrated ode in praise of Colonus comes off especially well...
...first production, Oedipus the King, began a club tradition of producing plays in their original languages. This year the group will follow suit by presenting Oedipus at Colonus in the Greek. And whether the Sophocles drama is a success or not, it will enter a colorful club's annals along with other productions which have made dramatic history at the University. The story behind these plays are now on exhibit at Widener and Lamont...
Thus Oedipus at Colonus will be the groups first post-war Greek production, and typically the club has returned to Sophocles...
Geoffrey D. Bush '50 took the $500 first prize with a critical essay entitled "The Promised End: Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear...