Word: phormio
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...parts are difficult. The play abounds in vivacity, and is full of amusing situations. The scene is laid in Naples, for the reason, perhaps, that striking adventures and extraordinary circumstances seem more plausible when they take place in a foreign country. The Play is Molieere's version of the Phormio of Terence. The main features of the old comedy have been retained, but more life and movement have been added. Moliere's play also has far more of the modern ideas and situations than Phormio. The characters and the plot are as follows: Argante and Geronte...
Latin Play. The Phormio of Terence, acted by students under the direction of the Classical Department. Sanders Theatre...
Latin Play. The Phormio of Terence, acted by students under the direction of the Classical Department. Sanders Theatre...
...actors were chosen entirely without reference to their previous experience in dramatic expression, but the choice has proved a fortunate one. The leading parts were all admirably well sustained. If praise can be given to two above the rest, it was deserved by Edward K.Rand as Phormio and Henry E. Burton as Demipho. Both entered perfectly into the spirit of the characters they represented. They not only acted their parts but looked them. In fact, the costumes of all were very effective, and materially aided in making the play realistic. To praise some of the actors...
Leaving out of account the crudities unavoidable in a purely amateur performance and the disproportionate prominence that any public effort not in the common line almost necessarily acquires, the production of the PHORMIO at Sanders Theatre is well worthy the attention of persons interested in classical education,- a category which ought to include all persons interested in any education...