Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophy was fin du monde. She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art. In answer to the question, "What gods has mankind worshipped?" Dancer Isadora Duncan once replied: "Dionysus - yesterday. Christ - today. After tomorrow, Bacchus at last!" In short she was the quintessential bohemian, the ideal subject for a screen biography. The Loves of Isadora supplies the ideal object: Vanessa Redgrave, whose enactment of Duncan carries with it an exquisite sensitivity and a formidable intelligence...
...Dionysus in '69--Richard Schechner's strange and fascinating version of Euripides' "The Bacchae." At the PERFORMING GARAGE, 33 Wooster...
BESIDES material like this, Eskow and director Jarry Presko (an alumnus of Richard Scheckner's Dionysus in '69) have a cast that knows just how to kick someone in the groin...
...poetry editors; Douglas A. Booth '71 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Calif., prose editor; Sarah Warren '70 of 103 Walker Street and Nahant, art editor; Elizabeth A. Campbell '71 of 56 Linnaean Street and Harvard, secretary; and Thomas A. Stewart '70 of Adams House and Glencoe, III., Dionysus...
...this led to a theater of holiness? Considering the offspring of Marat / Sade-Hair, Futz!, Tom Paine, Dionysus in '69-one scarcely thinks of holiness but of a kind of Corybantic Holy Rollerism. There is no deep ritualistic satisfaction in hearing the Dionysus in '69 troupe sibilantly repeat, "May I take you to your seat, sir?" in a seatless theater. Brook, of course, should not be blamed for his disciples. He himself expresses uneasy doubts as to whether the theater can restore rit ual or serve as displaced religion...