Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time period may not have been random, although it is an ultimately undeveloped idea. Specific trends in the Vienna of that time have relevance to the themes of the play. In late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke...
...character become plastic, and as his beloved, Ellen Burkhardt is a wonderfully pert ingenue, an island of sanity at sea. Kevin Usher as the gangster Moonface gives a performance that Bert Lahr would have loved, full of snarls that melt into whimpers, and with a deadpan that borders on hysteria. During his amusing solo, "Be Like the Bluebird," his playful vocal tricks give way to a voice as soaring as any in the cast. Phoebe Green's moll Bonnie, suggests the roll of the ocean all by herself, like a slightly underfilled waterbed: push on the thrust-out derriere...
...with an even bigger problem. A phone in his office will tinkle and it will be joined by buzzing throughout Byerly Hall. Nervous students who cannot wait another moment will inquire about their fate. Angered parents of rejected applicants will deluge the office with tears, protests and hysteria. But the entreaties are in vain, for the admissions game for this year is over, and L. Fred Jewett will already be considering the transfer applicants...
Lecture by Bennet Simon, M.D., Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School on "Women Wombs and Doctors: Hysteria in Classical Greece," 11-11:45 a.m., Room 257, Science Center...
...portrayal of Vera. She flirts and slithers very well around the stage, infusing the right amount of bitchiness into her essentially predatory character but is less effective at conveying fear. The result is occasional overacting, especially when mouthing words to herself in an attempt to display her growing hysteria...