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Sartre's play (perhaps his greatest) draws on the lore of Greek mythology to dramatize philosophical dilemmas of "choice" central to his own thought. Unlike Girandoux and Cocteau, so often careless and fanciful in their dramatic use of Greek "gods" and fate, Sartre adopts the symbolic fable of the House of Atreus as a serious medium for analysis of social guilt. He throws the uprooted Orestes into a miasma of remorse and penitent masochism. But in portraying Orestes' collaboration with Electra to avenge the murder of their father, Sartre avoids abstraction and presents his characters concretely...
...Girandoux' dialogue tends to preach, and the HTG's cast was not able to overcome that, June Garfield, Cannaught O'Connell, and David Bowen came the closest perhaps, the rest of the east ranged from good to weak, and showed an opening night predisposition towards blowing its lines. Giraudoux' dialogue also suffers in the translation (example: "Ajax is the meanest plug ugly among the Greeks") and there was nothing the HTG could do about that. Perhaps the Fogg Court will cut down both the immobility and the talkiness of tonight's HTG production, but it will do little to remedy...
Pirle Tuchings '54 and Connaught O'Connell '52 are shown primping for tonight's 8:30 p.m. opening of "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in Wellesley's Alumnae Hall. The modern anti-war satire by Jean Girandoux, author of "Mad Woman of Chaillot," opens in the Central Court of Fogg...
...Girandoux--Paul Morand" Professor Morize, Sever...
...Girandoux--Paul Morand", Professor Morize, Sever...
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