Word: ephesus
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Heraclitus was of the royal blood that ruled the Greek city of Ephesus, but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic disdain and hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...
...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshippers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstasies of Dionysus running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...bracing to come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...Rebecca cannot quite bring herself to embrace Aegeon, her long-lost husband, in the form of Dustin Barrera, 10. No matter--the teacher is impressed. Did anyone help her rehearse the lines? he asks. The diminutive citizens of Ephesus erupt in laughter. It's an inside joke: as the teacher well knows, none of his actors come from English-speaking homes...
...often the case with Boys' Shakespearean counterpart, the Dromio twins easily walk off with the show. Their long-suffering, high energy bawdiness clearly sets the pace for the rest of the production. Luce (i.e., Mrs. Dromio of Ephesus), played by Susan Long '02, shares two of the most enjoyable comic duets of the show, "What Can You Do with a Man?" and "He and She." Her earthy sexuality is a delightful contrast to her husband's submissive neurosis. As Tallevi pines for his lost "Big Brother" in Act Two, he establishes their finest moment, the Twins' Dance ballet...