Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was especially impressive on opening night, in the presence of so much appalling laughter from the audience...
...laughter was inappropriate, though. Cadmus (David Gullette '62) and Tiresius (Bashir Salhuddin '98) are both Theban wise men and comic duo. Their stichomythic exchanges even suggests lighthearted pastoral, but both are still capable of a rich gravity. I only thought that Cadmus' portentous admonition to Pentheus (of the fate of Acteon, ripped apart by his own hounds-Cadmus' own great-nephew!) was too droll...
...More laughter and applause from the audience greet both this response and the following remarks...
...Audience responds with laughter and applause to President Jiang Zemin's spoken response, and then the English translation is heard...
...outbursts disrupted the polite attentiveness and occasional laughter with which Jiang's speech was generally received...