Word: ionic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best sets in recent House productions: the sloping platform, recalling theatre tradition of the 19th century, makes the upstage actors easily visible behind those downstage. The set also captures the play's ambiguity of place and time, for the background suggests ancient Greece on one side (Ionic columns), Elizabethan England on the other (attractive filigree) and in the middle, where there is a long dark hallway draped with curtains of a fleur-de-lis pattern, an unspecified land of mystery and romance...
...Flatiron's architect was at least partly conscious of the heritage. He modeled the building after traditional towers and columns, separating it into three discrete sections: base, shaft and capital. Similarly, America's earliest settlers made a conscious effort to tap the main streams of Western architecture. Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pillars grace the front of many New England homes...