Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also elected yesterday were Dehn W.H. Gilmore '02, art editor; Lucy B. Ives '02, poetry editor; Max B. Hirsh '01, fiction editor; Kate M. Taylor '00, features editor; Parag Y. Shah '02, business manager; Kate F. Douglas '02, literary pegasus; George B. Debrigard '01, art pegasus; Joseph Turian '00, dionysus; Stephanie C. Stallings '02, dionysus; A. Haiwen Chu '01 and Debbie J. Lee '01, circulation managers; and Ezra D. Feldman '02, publicity relations manager...
...melodic and rhythmic vistas Armstrong opened up solved the mind-body problem as the world witnessed how the brain and the muscles could work in perfect coordination on the aesthetic spot. Apollo and Dionysus met in the sweating container of a genius from New Orleans whose sensitivity and passion were epic in completely new terms. In his radical reinterpretations, Armstrong bent and twisted popular songs with his horn and his voice until they were shorn of sentimentality and elevated to serious art. He brought the change agent of swing to the world, the most revolutionary rhythm of his century...
Though the cast of the current production playing at the Agassiz doesn't have to cope with such a nasty surprise, one suspects the actors would be able to rise to the occasion. From Dionysus' prologue/monologue (delivered by Winsome Brown '95 with fitting malice) to Agave's coming-to (acted out by Catherine Ingman '98 with fitting horror), the progress of the play benefits from the actors' uniform intensity of focus...
...tight motion and leggy prancing-which is fine, but doesn't always serve the words. The odes and the dance are twin hypnoses, and only one spell at a time can take hold. The collective decision to explore the possibilities of a lesbian subplot between a female Dionysus and her followers fares unexpectedly well. When the five dancers crouch close together, it reminds one of that Herb Ritts photo with all those supermodels...
However, Devil's Advocate is unquestionably Pacino's show. His turn here isn't, of course, on the level of his work in The Godfather series, but it is arguably one of his most dynamic performances since Scent of Woman. More Dionysus than Antichrist--he calls himself "the last real humanist"--he gives the funniest and most genuinely charismatic portrayal of the devil since Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick...