Word: electras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They were going to see a Eugene O'Neill play-an important one. The play, Mourning Becomes Electra, would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours...
Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill has 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 (Clytemnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...operatives, "Spider Dan" Goodwin, managed to lever himself up the Sears Tower in Chicago despite efforts of affronted city firemen to hose him away. And at an airfield in New Jersey, Pilot Grace McGuire, who bears an eerie resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart, will assemble a 1936 Lockheed Electra 10E, the kind of plane Earhart used, with the intention of next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give her 21 hours of flying...
Though, July 31--Mourning Becomes Electra...
Light summer theater it isn't Brooding and ponderous, but never slow, Mourning Becomes Electra is as black and cold as funeral garb. A play of despair, it ends without hope. But for those willing to take the long day's journey into night, an imaginative, well-directed drama awaits...