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...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...
...Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid such problems in her next movie, The Great...
Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
...shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...