Word: colonus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GOSPEL AT COLONUS. An unlikely mix of glorious gospel music and Sophoclean scenes yields a cheering new Broadway musical...
...young urban professionals who had never gone near Lincoln Center flocked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a BAM ticket became the scarcest in town. The first Next Wave Festival in 1983 featured Director Lee Breuer and Composer Bob Telson's dazzling wedding of Sophocles and soul, The Gospel at Colonus, which was later televised on PBS. The next year saw a triumphant reprise of Einstein, while last season brought Wilson's incandescent play The Golden Windows. It also brought forth a full-fledged disaster in The Birth of the Poet, a misbegotten collaboration among Punk Novelist Kathy Acker, Composer Peter...
Across the East River from the Great White Way, some 60 gospel shouters are shaking the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the soaring sounds of religious fervor. The Gospel at Colonus is an unlikely enterprise: the story of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as it might be enacted by a black evangelical congregation on a splendid Sunday morning. Sophocles' theme was man's acceptance of the inevitability of death; Adapter-Director Lee Breuer's is the black man's and woman's reconciliation to a hard life in these United States. If Breuer...