Word: phaedra
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...Martha Graham still has a horror of an indifferent crowd. "I'd rather," she says, "have them against me." Last week her modern dance troupe opened on Broadway for their annual two-week season. After the curtain rose on Phaedra, the first of two new works, there was not an indifferent eye in the house...
...Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The fire of Racine's tragedy and the froth of Beaumarchais' farce evoked with sense and sensitivity...
...Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The full-bodied red wine of Racine and the light, frivolous white of Beaumarchais, distinctively poured for discriminating palates...
...Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. Two dramas of sexuality, one tragic and one comic, rendered with a skill that does justice to the fiery poetry of Racine and the bubbling word play of Beaumarchais...
André Malraux has gone so far as to suggest that Phaedra is not a tragedy at all. He calls it "a modern play, a drama of sexuality...