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Tonight's production is Seamus Heaney's only play, "The Cure at Troy," written in 1991. After the Ex's expressly experimental purpose, the students have trussed up the Nobel laureate's adaptation of Sophocles' "Philoctetes" with smartly tailored costumes, special effects and a few playful hypotheticals all their own: With scripts at hand would the Greek Chorus, like the Three Fates, look more like directors than a traditional chorus merely commenting on the action? Could you make an Odysseus speech look extemporaneous if the chorus frantically flipped through their scripts looking for lines that weren't there...
...Joining Heaney, who is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, were poets John L. Ashbery '49 and Jorie Graham, who also read selections from their work...
Professor Seamus Heaney made his first public appearance since winning the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to read five poems in the candlelit hush of Memorial Church last night, as part of a commemorative event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Harvard University Art Museums...
...have learned much and have been steadied and unsteadied by painters," Heaney said...
...Heaney, whose selections included "Stiff Tree" and "An Artist," ended his reading with "Poet's Chair," a meditation on a sculpture in Dublin by that title...