Word: helene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HELEN AMINOFF...
Alternative Voice. The short, wiry Troy runs the Observer from an old red brick bungalow in Oklahoma City, three blocks from the capitol. Though he prints a few articles from unpaid contributors, he fills most of the twelve-page paper himself. His wife (and co-publisher) Helen keeps the books and stuffs papers into mailing envelopes at their modest suburban home. He often warns subscribers to "worry about a newspaper when it earns enough for the publisher to join the country club." That is not something that Troy's readers need fear. The Observer lost $18,000 during...
...Attic times, men would have performed both men's and women's roles. Because of the oppression of women in ancient Greece and the misogyny apparent in Euripedes's writings, it is only poetic justice that several female actresses should excell in this production. Julia Gilbert, as Helen, conveys the beauty of the language as well as the comic, romantic and semi-tragic sides of her personality. The cast as a whole--and particularly Gilbert and Ann Bailen, as the portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling...
Euripedes' Helen is a fairy tale built on the story of the bard Steischorus. He claimed that not Helen, but Helen's wraith, had gone to Troy, while she herself remained in Egypt until her ship-wrecked husband Menelaus, King of Sparta, finally arrived and found her there 15 years later...
Producer-director Nick Harris's production is not intended to be a carbon copy of the Athenian Helen, originally presented in 412 B.C. the 1692-line original, which would have lasted about three hours without intermissions, has been cut by approximately two-thirds. These cuttings are skillful--the portions that contain the most action and intensity of feeling have been retained, as have (with minor deletions) the long soliloquies...