Word: oresteiaã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Rebecca J. Alaly ’04-’05 advertises her latest choreography work in “The Oresteia?? as having “severed heads, dirt, blood, and meat.” The Loeb Mainstage Production, based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, tells a tale of murderous revenge within a single family...
Rebecca J. Alaly ’04-’05 advertises her latest choreography work in “The Oresteia?? as having “severed heads, dirt, blood, and meat.” The Loeb Mainstage Production, based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, tells a tale of murderous revenge within a single family...
Above all, however, “The Oresteia?? left audiences with the sense that they were witnessing the echo of an ART (American Repertory Theater) show proper: the juxtaposition of a classical text with zany costumes, video projections, moments of kookiness, and po-mo poignancy were served up in proportions roughly equal to what one pays ten times the price to witness during the ART season (think: Highway Ulysses...
...Oresteia?? is excellent, experimental, wildly ambitious theater, and its like should be encouraged—ambition like this is not a fault. A word to the HRDC, which, like a parish church, distributed collection envelopes in “The Oresteia?? Playbill: put politics aside, please embrace the cutting-edge, and take risks. More of the same of this sort is good. (Similar attempts at experimentation should be more encouraged...
...talent and efforts of the Harvard theater community. I hope my work has done them justice, and that my standards have been fair. I would also like to reiterate my gratitude to my readers. We all—as will the talents behind “The Oresteia??—have tremendous things to look forward to. But regardless of our futures, our valedictions should be tempered by an awareness that we have much to be proud of here...