Word: heaneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...special effects, Institute productions also get frills like smoke, fire and a moving stage made possible by budgetary scraps the A.R.T. can throw their way. "The Cure at Troy" even has a special surprise made feasible by those titillating Harvard connections everyone loves to work. Heaney himself threw in, probably without his normal speaker's fee, his very own marvelous voice, taped, reciting a bit of verse from his very own play...
...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...
...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...