Word: electras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play, Mourning Becomes Electra, had been in the mind of many a theatregoer for over a year. Rumor about it had been rife. It would be three independent pieces. It would take three days to see it. Each unit would run a week and it would take three weeks to see it. Not until ten days before production was the matter definitely cleared: the trilogy would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours. One wag remarked, "We won't go home until Mourning Becomes Electra." Admission...
...hired girl in trouble, had to marry her and leave town. Lavinia, who finds out about the affair, loathes her mother a little bit more, threatens to tell her father about it unless Christine dismisses Brant. Out of this situation arises the first of Mourning Becomes Electra's four deaths. Tired of war, sick, wishing to patch it up with his wife, Ezra returns. It is hard for him to forget four years of carnage. "That's always been the Mannon's way of thinking," says he. "They went to the white meeting house on Sabbaths...
Significance. Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
Miss Blanche Yurka who plays "Electra" in the production which the Harvard Dramatic Club is bringing to Jordan Hall on Monday night will be the guest of honor at a tea which the 47 Club is giving on Sunday afternoon at four o'clock with members of the Harvard Dramatic Club as guests. Miss Yurka will speak informally following the tea, and although her subject is not announced it will probably be in connection with the great tragedy of Sophocles in which she plays the leading role. Miss Martha Graham, the dancer, is expected as well as other members...
...resultant mediocrity, the Harvard Dramatic Club has resolved to regain its previous high standing. This spring as well as giving a performance which, though patronized by discouragingly small audiences, was unanimously lauded by critics, the Club is widening its influence by patronizing and making possible the professional production of "Electra". In its announcement this morning, the Club hopes to continue this policy of bringing to Boston classics which could not otherwise be presented. Carried out carefully, this plan should be advantageous not only to local theatre-goers but also to the treasury of the Club...