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Last year the Dramatic Club invited Blanche Yurka to play in "Electra" in Boston, an example which was followed by requests for her to play at other colleges. By inviting Sir Philip Ben Greet's Shakespeare Company the Club hopes to set the precedent of sponsoring the productions of a well known company annually in this city...
...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...
...simple, straightforward. Spectators who came expecting asides, theatrical tricks such as those employed in Strange Interlude were disappointed. Spectators who hoped to see an elaborate job of mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were disappointed, too. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to sit and watch a family obliterate itself, motivated by unrelieved hatred and lust...
Mourning Becomes Electra was largely written last year at his house near Tours, France. Returned to the U. S. this summer for rehearsals, seven weeks of them, he said he would never live abroad again. He has three children: Eugene Jr., who won a Latin prize at Yale last year (TIME, June 8) of which his father is very proud, Ona and Shane. He is also attached to a Dalmatian named Blemie...