Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory is all the rage with your smart act these days, and it is reliably reported that one cannot so much as whistle a few bars of "Mack the Knife" in the Square without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that...
OVER AND OVER (Epic). The Dave Clark Five, who arrived in the first wave of the British invasions, are still sledgehammering their drums and getting lots of attention. They sing, "Ah said it over and over and over again/ This dance is gonna be a drag." And it more or less...
...voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has be come a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a bravura perform ance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among the Lotus Eaters; the brooding Lake Avernus...