Word: pentheus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land so stingily that it is time they got a comeuppance. A onetime chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine god Dionysus...
Pettigrew v. Passion. Linklater's setting is a Scottish fishing village, his characters a cross section of classes from laird to laborers. Too somnolent to worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian...