Word: phormio
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...Sanders Theatre on March 19 and 20 when the Harvard Classical Club presents the "Menaechmi" of Plautus, members of the University will have an opportunity to see the first Latin play produced at Harvard since the club gave the "Phormio" in 1893. This year's play, the first to be given by the club entirely on its own initiative, will be rendered in Latin metrically, to the accompaniment of two clarinets, an oboe, and a bassoon. The music, which attempts to recall rather than reproduce that of the Romans, was written by R. S. Shuman...
Fortnight ago in London, in accordance with ancient custom, Westminster School (St. Peter's College) boys produced Terence's Phormio (The Parasite). The hoary College Dormitory, designed by famed Sir Christopher Wren, has housed similar productions each year since 1729. Older than the Westminster tradition of struggling for a tossed pancake on Shrove Tuesday is the annual presentation of a Latin play. It is also customary for the year's bright scholars to write a prolog and epilog and last fortnight the London Times bowed to custom by reproducing these learned appendages fully-four fat columns...
...production is not a departmental one in any way. It is the fourth such presentation by the Classical Club the first, that of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", having been given in 1876. In 1893 the "Phormio" of Terence was produced, and, in 1906, the "Agamem non" of Aeschylus. Only one performance of the "Menaechmi" will be given and that open only to members of the University...
...production next year will be under the direction of Mason Hammond '25, Instructor and Tutor in the Department of the Classics, who had an opportunity to observe similar plays while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. E.K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin, who acted in the "Phormio" of Terence presented in 1893, will attend the rehearsals; and F.C. Packard Jr. '20. Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, will direct the acting. The production will be open to the entire University, and probably to the public as well...
...classical department has decided to produce Aischylos' Choephoroi in Sanders Theatre sometime next May. This will be the fourth play given under the direction of the department, the others being Oedipus Tyrannus in 1881, Phormio in 1894, and some scenes from The Birds in 1901. Choephoroi was first played in 458 B.C., and forms the middle member of the trilogy, in which Aischylos treats of the legend of the House of Atreus. Here the special subject is the punishment and murder of Klytaimnestra by her son Orestes...