Word: orpheus
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...Black Orpheus (Dispatfilm-Gemma; Lopert) is perhaps the most impressive can of film so far cast up on U.S. shores by the New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) of creation that has swept across the French movie industry. It is an amazing creation. The picture was made by Marcel Camus,* a 47-year-old assistant to some of France's top directors. In 1957 he found an adaptation of the Orpheus legend by a Brazilian poet and playwright named Vinicius de Moraes (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956), and for the hell of it he used the wildly poetic mountains around...
Atlantic Beach, L.I., Capri Theater: Kim Hunter stars in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending...
While Romeo and Juliet made shy love in the corner, a file of bare-chested men in pajama pants and motorcycling helmets marched on the stage to the martial roll of drums. Guns began to chatter, and Romeo toppled, a bullet in his heart. Orpheus appeared in slacks and V-necked shirt, turned to the audience with a bewildered...
...were prepared to answer him, but the audience nevertheless applauded like a bullfight crowd. Occasion: performance in Paris' Théâtre des Champs Elysées of Orpheus, a ballet set to music by avant-garde Composer Pierre Henry, 31. The performers were members of France's sensational new dance troupe, Maurice Béjart's Ballet Theater of Paris, which specializes in choreography set to concrete music...
...Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...