Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language transpositions from the Greek lack eloquence, spareness or precision, and the contemporary colloquialisms iar the ear. Lines like "You mean you intend to kill your mother?" produce wildly inappropriate laughter from an audience saturated with Freud. The prevailing style of the evening is that of neo-Shakespearean swashbuckling, and the barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay...
Nietzsche and Freud. Both the design and the direction sought to emphasize one of Ponelle's major beliefs about Verdi: that he was just as much a psychological music dramatist as Wagner. "Verdi felt and anticipated a great deal of what was later expressed by Nietzsche and Freud," he says. "In Don Carlos, King Philip is a man burdened beyond endurance with the responsibility of preserving an empire doomed to crumble, a man trembling at the possibility that the hand of God is hidden in the Inquisition. Carlos is a neurotic suffering from a clearly delineated Oedipus complex...
Moonlight gathered more as the journey continued toward its continuation. Echoes of Beuchner and Freud and Camus slapping out of the monologue. The girl tripped and fell in a ditch...
...their black neighbors, but their son and daughter refuse to join in the whiteballing. When a racist threatens them, they angrily announce that black is not only beautiful but necessary, smear him with black paint and begin advancing, tarbrushes in hand, on the audience. Playwright Israel Horovitz thoroughly comprehends Freud's dictum that laughter is a release from tension. With fusillades of obscenities and insult humor, he keeps the audience too jittery and hysterical to realize that they have only been watching an intellectual Don Rickles...
...paints depict pulpy male nudes who couple lewdly on beds or sit like withdrawn junkies in cell-like boxes. The current show also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson. On one canvas, a hypodermic syringe rises from what looks like a well-beaten body, while in a corner of another a bird that has been plucked stark naked screeches desperately on his perch...