Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phaedra is, says Graham candidly, "a phantasmagoria of desire." The dance tells the story of Phaedra (danced by Graham herself), who is cursed by Aphrodite with an unnatural lust for her stepson Hippolytus. The spectator is left in no doubt about the nature of her passion-Hippolytus is first seen as only a pair of spotlighted, near-naked loins. Frenzied when Hippolytus rejects her advances, she tells his father that the youth had raped her, and the dance's high point is the visionary enactment of this lie in all the vividness of Phaedra's inflamed imagination...
...monotonous meanness of his lust...
Instead of the usual gaunt crone with nothing left in her face except character, this Lady Macbeth is young. She has sex, a hard jaw and a soft body with a surging bosom that she proffers without a downward glance. Her lust-at the moment, for power-is for once understandable to the masses and not just to the senior staff members at Menninger...
...Redeeming Note. His subject was not mankind's evils but its foibles. The French Barracks, with one officer staring lecherously at the bosom of the girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside...
...such a summing-up in a cycle of 14 one-act jMays divided into two groups, "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins." The off-Broadway debut of three of the playlets, two from the Man series (Infancy, Childhood) and one from the Sins series about lust (Someone from Assisi) is not auspicious...