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...SICK LITTLE girl in a woman's body, Empress Phylissa doesn't know her powers. Drooling, a finger hooked over her lower lip, the beauty never guesses that her bedroom's an asylum. She makes you wrench, as do all the characters in The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre's The Menagerie of Empress Phylissa performed last week at the Loeb...
...princess looking over various suitors in order to choose a husband--into a grotesque, surrealistic fantasy. All Phylissa's wooers first enter gallantly, then run scared as her lust switches on. Little Napoleon, terror-struck, stabs himself in the groin. Max-Pipifax makes it further, to bed with the empress, only to be eaten by her highness--who proceeds to throw up on his flesh. The two are hardly men, nor are the rabble of other lewd cavaliers, truly Phylissa's menagerie of beasts...
...over half the opera are closely modeled on the initiation rites of the Order. Eighteenth century audiences would have instantly recognized the political allusions couched in the story: the feud between the Queen of the Night and the High Priest over possession of the Queen's daughter Pamina symbolised Empress Maria Theresa's religious warfare against democratic Freemasonry, while the people of Austria (Pamina) were putatively caught in the crossfire. The opera describes a spiritual journey from darkness to light; it ends with the initiation of Pamina and her prince, Tamino into the Temple of Isis as they embrace...
...Polish Mime Ballet. A celebrated European company performs the comic mime The Menagerie of the Empress Phylissa, which combines ballet, mime theatre and gymnastics. One of the Loeb's special season presentations. Performances January 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. January 17 at 5 and 9 p.m., January 18 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Rush seats...
...sorts that claims too much of a President's time and energy. This thought must have occurred to Jerry Ford about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there," he mused. He would...