Word: philo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were no boos in San Fran cisco last week. Producer Paul Hager toned down some of the explicit sex and sociology of Hamburg's version, pointed up some of the opera's philo sophical overtones, and allowed Schul ler to reinstate a subtler ending, which the Hamburgers had cut. These modifications, and the new stage design -plus the impassioned singing of Bari tone Simon Estes in the lead - gave the story of a Negro lynching a harrowing touch of surrealism...
...actors and their audience less because of the Ideals it embodies than because of what it lets them see of themselves. Aegisthus, commissioned to kill his own father, finds a man "Shaken by disgust / At the whoring of his belly after a life / His mind was through with." And Philo, the one Regent-Councillor who abstained from voting for death, asks what has become of the time "When by some strong geometry of love / The law and right were one, the thing and its use, / The man and the life he'd made his own? All gone...
...playing like a child, ' says Painter-Sculptor Max Ernst. Ernst himself has been playing all his life, and the result is some of the most imaginative and ingenious work done in this century. Very early he began his "excursions in the world of marvels, chimeras, phantoms, poets, monsters, philo. ">phers, birds, women, lunatics, magi, trees, eroticism, stones, insects, mountains, poisons, mathematics and so forth." As could be seen at his big (240 works) retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week (see color}, the excursions have been strange and even a bit scary...
...Antony is a tragic figure, but not in this play. For all his dashing around, his is a virtually static character. We see only the results of tragedy, not the tragedy itself. The very opening lines of the play, delivered by Philo, tell us Antony has already hit bottom--and that's where he stays. He is no longer a great man: he is vicious and sadistic; he shows signs of incipient alcoholism; his military judgement (not even Shakespeare makes credible his decision for a sea battle) and prowess (he even bungies his suicide) are quite gone. Once...