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Paul Schmidt and Lynn Milgrim (Orestes and Electra) have nearly half the play's lines; and both are, for the most part, striking. Schmidt must make plausible a wide range of moods--from grieving madness and whispering weakness to hollow posturing and bloody rage. His resonant voice and liquid movements aid him in rendering realistic the avenger-turned-criminal...
...Miss Milgrim's wild black hair, marvelously petulant mouth and expressive eyes make her Electra visually right. And aside from first-night nervousness and occasional unsureness with her hands, her performance as the sister who is at once compassionate and brutal matches the effectiveness of her looks...
Playing opposite Medearis, who is wonderful, is Lynn Milgrim as the old lady, and Miss Milgrim is even better. She handles her complex part with the versatility that Claire Zachanassian's changing mods require. Her role is the central one in the play: Miss Milgrim must be comic in one scene, tragic in the next, and tragicomic the rest of the time. She moves from being old and bitchy to being sad and tender with astonishing ease. The scene in the forest when she sits with Medearis who knows he will die that night is the most moving...
...want to know who else is good, the program lists the names. The entire cast is brilliant; the only common failing is that many of the actors have difficulty looking and acting old Aside from Miss Milgrim, David Mills, the town's mayor, is best...
...spoke or was silent, moved or was moved. Her voice and presence simply filled the Loeb. To be sure, she left room for Agamemnon, Cassandra, and Aegisthus, but only David Stone, and at times Daniel Seltzer (Aegon), could command a place. One would have liked to see Lynn Milgrim alone, not overwhelmed; but even with Clytemnestra there, she spoke a Cassandra that thrilled...