Word: phaedra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheila Hart (Phaedra) speaks with bewildered and frightened passion as the queen who lusts for her son Hippolytus. She commands such respect with each word that her accusingly harsh "Wicked!" to her Nurse seems to damn her for eternity. When she cries "Women, stop speaking!", they dare not speak. And when she predicts her fate, Death!", I feared for her very existence. Miss Hart overcome the awkward hand gestures devised by the director by using her face and the slightest turn of her head to convey the deepest emotion...
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...Phaedra, "shouted Tim." Phaedra! Phaedra we don't have to worry about. A cultist picture, for Tony Perkins fans...
Last year Diana Sands played the protagonist in Robert Lowell's Phaedra with Philadelphia's Theater of the Living Arts and failed to be consumed by passion, as in Joan she fails to be consumed by faith. Like the founders of the Negro Ensemble, she has publicly deplored "the wall" most Negro performers face. With indubitable talent and spunk, she has proved that the wall can be scaled. Yet she is encouraging herself, or being encouraged, as a Negro, to attempt parts for which she currently lacks the size, range and maturity as an actress...
...Mikis Theodorakis, 42, the composer best known for his scores for Zorba the Greek and Phaedra. An avowed Communist and leader of the Red-fronting Lambrakis youth movement, Theodorakis eluded the dragnet that rounded up 6,500 Communists in the early hours of the April 21 coup. The sound of his music bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed...