Word: oedipuses
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...England's Old Vic had given Broadway some good Shakespeare and some dubious Chekhov (TIME, May 20, 27). But last week they gave Broadway its greatest theatrical experience in years. Reaching back 25 centuries to Sophocles, they bodied forth, as superb theater, as searing tragedy, his Oedipus the King...
...productions this week and following weeks: Sophocles' Chekhov's Oedipus Rex, Uncle Vanya; a Sheridan's twin The bill Critic. of The Old Vic will also make four hour-long broadcasts, starting...
Applied Psychology. In London, a busker gave theatergoers outside the Old Vic's performance of Oedipus a sly musical preview: A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother...
...secret of Idler's success in this half of their double bill undoubtedly lies to some extent in its choice of a play within its acting means; failure to practice this preachment proves the undoing of the remainder of the program. The Yeats translation of "Oedipus" may be meat for Laurence Olivier and the Old Vie, but it is so far beyond the resources of Radcliffe College and associated institutions as to make any effort at producing it almost worthless...
...female chorus would alone endanger such an attempt, especially one with accents and movements as weird as Idler's. The current performance collapses wholly in the sadly inadequate portrayals of most of the leading characters, especially that of Oedipus, which Henry P. Robbins exaggerates and destroys, despite good diction, with a stream of sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much...