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...powerless against him,” Zeus says in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “The Flies.” Through the Electra myth, Sartre’s work skillfully explores notions of free will and human essence. This mélange of existentialism and Greek mythology would have been unremarkable to the 20th century audience for whom the play was written. But redefined within the contours of the 21st century—as the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production which opened this Friday demonstrates—“The Flies?...
There is no doubt that Sartre’s original adaptation of the Greek mythology is brilliant. The play tells the story of Orestes and his sister. After an affair between their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus results in the death of their father Agamemnon, the siblings avenge him by killing the responsible couple, who had taken over the kingdom of Argos, imposing their guilt upon the people in the form of perpetual mourning and black clothing. Sartre cleverly ties this in with existentialism. The guilt does not belong to the people but they are forced to express...
...news had to stop whatever they were doing and shudder. The giant, silver, Jiffy Pop balloon was climbing higher over Larimer County, Colorado, and on the ground a 10-year-old boy named Bradford Heene had told the sheriff that his little brother Falcon was inside. Falcon? Was some Greek narrative poet scripting this tragedy? Their father Richard longed to live large, a scientist, storm chaser, wife swapper, aspiring reality-TV star. He had built the vessel in the backyard; they called it his "flying saucer...
...director, the subject matter of “The Flies” should appeal to a broad variety of students. “What’s really cool is that it can cross literary and genre boundaries,” says Muller. “It is first Greek myth, then Sartre, and then Geordie’s interpretation of Sartre. It offers something to many different people...
Setting Sue, “mighty Greek warrior,” to Carmina Burana was brilliant. We hope someone got promoted. Also fun: a double-headed coin, threats of vomit, an ability to smell failure, and an increasingly improbable biography. We are now to believe she is a Comanche and a former VJ. Sue’s idea of “empowerment” is “irrational, random terror,” and she finds “psychosexual derangement” to be “fascinating...