Word: medea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verge of retirement. Having taken a crack at the title role in Hamlet at age 72, Dame Judith is not about to quit acting. In fact, she revels in comedy. "It was wonderful going to work in the morning," said the actress who has portrayed Lady Macbeth and Medea, "knowing that I wouldn't be killing anyone before lunch...
...showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria Callas back to America. Four years later, in Dallas, she presented him with the definitive Medea...
...sign soliciting actors for a musical production of The Wizard of Oz at Dunster House is the final straw: the Harvard theatrical community has gone preternaturally escapist this year. With the exception of a planned Adams House production of Medea--recently scrapped because of lack of interest--and a Winthrop House production of The Plain Dealer, the other House selections, Leverett's Applause and Kirkland's Hay Fever, are marked by unusual frivolity. Add to these plays the usual Hasty Pudding show (this year reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what...
...MEDEA. In her natal Greece, Irene Papas is known as Mavro Diamond (Black Diamond). Such was her Medea...
Consider a brief and highly incomplete roster of Western drama in which this struggle, or some variation of it, is powerfully present: Medea, Hedda Gabler, Dance of Death, The Father, Strange Interlude, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Walts of the Toreadors, The Homecoming, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...