Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUST before I went to see Seneca's Oedipus last night, while I was having dinner, I heard about a fire that broke out early yesterday morning in the home of some friends of mine. Everybody made it out safely except for the cat, Porky, who was that rare animal which makes its way through the world with both saintly charity and sparkling good humor. We were very sad, all of us looking down at our plates. It was a small tragedy, perhaps an inversion of the Aristotelian "larger than life" mode, but we were exalted just the same. Until...
Harpo's production of Oedipus makes a similar statement about the bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending...
Existential therapy is not so much a new school as a new interpretation of Freudian analysis. It is less interested in the past simply as past; indeed, May defines the past as "having been," a state that survives. Existentialists also quarrel with the common interpretation of the Oedipus complex as the guilt and fear engendered by the male child's attraction to his mother. May and others say that the conflict actually signifies man's refusal to face the truth of his own being. They ask pointedly: What does Oedipus do when he confronts the awful knowledge that...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Harvard Glee Club will be coming together March 20 to perform a typically difficult and varied program: Josquin, Poulance, Handl, Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," and the Brahms "Alto Rhapsody." The soloist for the "Rhapsody" is Mildred Miller from the Metropotitan Opera...
...Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus and Jocasta's daughters, Antigone and Ismene, are very young and silent. Sloan, however, has drawn on all versions of the Oedipus myth, and in his play the daughters are teen-agers or older, both articulate judges of their parents. Antigone is a haughty spitfire, Ismene a dutiful but skeptical daughter. Unlike Sophocles, Sloan includes the incestuous pair's son Polynices and implies a homosexual relationship with Jocasta's nephew Haemon. A very up-to-date household, indeed. When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs...