Word: hecuba
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...makings of a classic confrontation-the convergence of four female stars in Madrid to film The Trojan Women. A concatenation of cats? A frisson of felines? Not at all. Playing mother hen, Katharine Hepburn (Hecuba) immediately put rebellious Vanessa Redgrave (Andromache) at ease by warmly embracing her when Vanessa arrived with her daughter. Meeting Senevieve Bujold (Cassandra), Katie called her "My child," to which the young Canadian actress responded with a deferential "Madame." Even Greek-born Irene Papas (Helen) was filled with love. Asked how she felt about working with her longtime mentor and friend, Director Michael Cacoyannis, she replied...
Babe's adaptation adds the brass of the American idiom to Euripides' sterling verse, and every line rings true. His new version of Trojan Women is--from the brilliant sex metaphors of Cassandra's speech to Hecuba's point-by-point indictment of hypocrisy--incisive and beautiful dramatic poetry. It should be published...
Though it ultimately achieves a kind of wry grandeur, the play does so on its own ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental...
...Radcliffe chorus alone presented Gustav Holst's "Hecuba's Lament" with the contralto, Eunice Alberts, as soloist. Miss Alberts gave a flawless performance; her voice never lost the rich color heard in the sustained "Lo" which opens the work. Expressive phrasing endowed her cry to Priam with genuine tragedy. The highly dramatic character of the "Lament" was maintained throughout by the carefully controlled voices of the Radcliffe chorus...
Featured on the same program will be "Hecuba's Lament" by Holt, two choruses from "Solomon" by Handel, and a chorus from Bach's 16th cantata...