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...TROJAN WOMEN. With anguish, protective passion and wounded nobility, Mildred Dunnock, Joyce Ebert and Carrie Nye decry their fate, surrounded by a chorus whose every movement echoes the powerful and evocative words of the Euripides classic...
...TROJAN WOMEN. This masterly revival of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion and cruel inner hurt. Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of truth-that they are worthy of the playwright...
...unbearable exists so that man may bear it, and that life is a problem to which the only solution is death. Rarely have these inexorabilities been brought home to a modern audience with more telling force than in this masterly revival. In the leading roles, Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of the truth, that they are worthy of the playwright. If there is a more perfect method for re-creating this great tragedy than Director Cacoyannis has displayed, the difference may not be worth discovering...
Among the supporting players, Louis Nye earns laughs as a bearded, way-out artist with an eye for the fast buck. "My stuff goes for 500 clams, but it's got a 1,000% profit potential," he says. Nye rides around on his latest masterwork aboard a kid's tricycle with a dribbling container of paint suspended over each wheel. Nye tells a visitor: "If you're going to walk on my canvas, the least you can do is put a little crimson on your soles." Pretty funny. But when all's said and done...
...national power Bevan ever attained, and he put into operation Britain's system of free medical and dental services. The final ironies of his career lay in the future, when the prosperous electorate repudiated Socialism and bit the hand that fed it. What is more, it bit with Nye Sevan's free false teeth...