Word: oedipuses
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...writer fond of doing the unexpected--previous works include A Clockwork Orange, a translation of Oedipus Rex and a sonata--Burgess strives for effect by interweaving the life of Freud, a sci-fi apocalypse, and Trotsky's visit to New York. Styles range from a libretto to a TV-play, at times in utter parody of themselves...
...Neill's innovative style. In The Emperor Jones O'Neill overwhelmingly used symbolism and created the first major part for a Black man. He used The Hairy Ape as a vehicle for a condemnation of the capitalistic, mechanistic materialism of American society. In comparing Yank, the protagonist, to Oedipus and Hamlet. O'Neill is addressing the oldest theme in history--man's struggle with his own fate. The play, Berlin notes, "is more existential than political, more metaphysical and spiritual than social, Man's desire to belong, his quest for belonging. is the measure of his humanity, even though...
...poshlost, as the Russians say, an overheated lunge toward the profound, to think of Casablanca in terms of deeper allegory. Still, it is hard to resist delving for Jungian archetypes, primal transactions of the kind that lurk in, say, the Oedipus story (Here's looking...
...Redgrave identified herself with this political stance enough to injure her credibility as an artist or make her artistic appearances tantamount to political statements? Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra apparently thought to last April, when they threatened to refuse to play in a performance of Stravincky's operaoratoria "Oedipus Rex" if the actress narrated the piece as scheduled. After receiving repeated warnings, both from musicians and board members who criticized her engagement as "provocative" and "insensitive," and from outside lobby groups, the management cancelled the concert, citing safety hazards to participants. Last Friday, Redgrave announced that she will...
...quest for Mallot becomes an exorcising journey into Choubert's subconscious past. Wife becomes mother, man becomes boy. The conclusive finding: Choubert hated his father and adored his mother. Some critics regard Victims of Duty as a parody of both the Oedipal myth and the Oedipus complex. This off-Broadway revival blunts all the wickedly comic points. The people involved may be thanked for doing Ionesco, but not for doing him in. -T.E.K...