Word: guzzetti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirkland House Production of Orestes expecting the usual formal harmony of Greek drama. Sophocles is reported to have said that whereas he represented people as they should be, Euripides represented them as they are. And director Alfred Guzzetti seems to have had Sophocles' interpretation in mind; his Orestes is an arresting blend of the tragic, melodramatic, and sometimes even the comic which, at least until the end, is always human...
...sure a solemn chorus, robbed in purple, comments on the action in song, but their accompaniment is a jarring, discordant arrangement of oboes, tympani, drums, and piano (written by Guzzetti himself). An angular, jagged set complements the music and helps undercut the stolid dignity of the purely tragic form...
...Director Guzzetti is fortunate in his minor characters, for their performances range from passable to very good. Ellery Akers plays Helen as an empty-headed Fanny Hill, rather than a regal queen whose face launches a thousand ships, and plays her well. David Evett's Menelaus is properly unctuous and opportunistic. And Michael Nach's frenetic sing-song servility as a Phyrigian slave introduces the comic tone which diminishes the tragedy of Orestes...
...Corwin; Keith M. Cushman; W. Bowman Cutter III; Robert H. Donaldson; John B. Dunlop; Barry M. Dym; Joseph W. Esherick; Nicholas W. Fels; David S. Forman; Douglas G. Frame; Donald Gertmenian; Raymond E. Glazier, Jr.; Robert L. Goldberg; Harold R. Goodyear; Richard H. Grossman; Gerald O. Grow; Alfred F. Guzzetti; Gordon P. Harper; Wilbur D. Hart III; John J. Hartman; Peter H. Herman; Paul L. Hoch; and Paul S. Hoff...
...third, Tech knocked out Guzzetti with two runs on three hits to make the score...