Word: oedipus
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...Greek tragedy offers its difficulties--the longer speeches include a number of passages obviously difficult to enunciate clearly--but it is still admirably suited for a modern audience because it stresses the excitement which the play contains. The director, D.J. Sullivan, understands this fact and has recreated Oedipus as a truly gripping piece of theater. Furthermore he and Harold Scott, who portrays the King, also understand the subtle rhythms of the tragedy, for in their hands the play rises through a beautifully timed series of climaxes to the point where Oedipus' anguished scream announces that he at last knows...
...theater season at Harvard could scarcely have had a more satisfactory beginning than with the Eliot Drama Group presentation of the Yeats' adaptation of Oedipus Rex and Sheridan's The Critic. Their Critic is charming and imaginative, and their Oedipus is nothing less than superb...
...director can present a satisfactory Oedipus without a very talented actor in the title role, and in Scott he found one who fits this description. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Harold Scott's performance. All the shadings of the King are here: the young and arrogant saviour of Thebes, the impatient investigator into his own past, and the chastened hero, who submits in a most touching scene, to the will of the new King, Creon...
Just as impressive, in her own way, is the Jocasta of Lisa Rosenfarb. She projects the dignity of the queen of Thebes, and at the same time retains the tenderness of a loving wife. And to watch the horror of realization steal into her eyes as she recognizes that Oedipus is her own son is to witness a consumate piece of acting. A similar attention to the details of a performance can be found in Philip McCopy's portrayal of Tiresias, the blind prophet. In his single but long scene, the man personifies all the calm certaintly of truth...
...Oedipus Rack. In Singapore. Them Kim Kow said in court that she had left her husband, but would return if her mother-in-law would stop sleeping under their...