Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that the Harvard students made a very creditable mob of Thebans", said Sir John Martin-Harvey to a CRIMSON reporter on Monday night after the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Opera House. The noted British actor was resting after his first appearance as Oedipus, king of Thebes in this classic tragedy of Sophocles, which was produced for the first time on Monday evening...
When interviewed on Monday evening, Sir John was sitting in his dressing room, dabbing the last traces of make up from his face, and discussing the performances of the various Thebans mobs with which he has performed "Oedipus...
...doubt if there was so large a mob in the play 2000 years ago as in the modern version. When 'Oedipus Rex' was given in the Dionysian Theatre at Athens, where the play was originally produced the performances were given in a huge ampitheatre before an audience of some 19,000. In so large an ampitheatre, before so large an audience, the play was necessarily produced on a large scale. Yet even so I doubt if they had a mob as large as ours was this evening. This idea of a thundering mob and howling hundreds is pretty much...
...wings of the Boston Opera House were crowded at 7 o'clock last night, when over 200 students from Harvard and Radcliffe, who had been engaged to act as the Theban mob in Sir John Martin-Harvey's production of "Oedipus Rex" appeared for their first performance...
...fore, possessing, as it does, the Marlowe Society which produces Elizabethan plays; the "Footlights" which works in the realms of Musical Comedy; and the A. D. C. which concerns itself with good plays of almost any nature. This term we have been provided with a number of plays. "Oedipus Tyrannus" had a very successful run of about nine nights. Its object was to pay off the debt incurred by the Greek play of last year which was produced almost regardless of expense. The debt must by now have been paid off, judging by the crowds which attended the "Oedipus...