Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Jason is unsure whether he wants to leave Medeia. But as he is prompted by Kreon to tell his tale of the Argonauts, he starts off on a new voyage into his own psyche, distorting the original story to fit his purposes. Kreon best describes Jason's inward journey...
Hamburg police recount the sad tale of a prostitute named Erika and a pimp named Helga. For two hard-working years, they saved money to go into business as antique dealers. Then Helga ran off with the money. Heartbroken-and furious-Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already...
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life...
...drama so intentionally full of ambiguities, unusual latitude is afforded a director. Although the historical events on which the work is based lay in the 11th century, Kahn has quite legitimately placed his characters in the time of James I. In choosing a tale from Scottish history, Shakespeare was paying tribute to King James, himself a Scotsman; and in giving such a major role to the supernatural, he was honoring not only a king deeply interested in witch-craft but one who had himself recently written a treatise entitled Daemonologie...
...centerpiece of the current Aldeburgh Festival, Britten's Death in Venice is a spare, cerebral music drama that remains faithful to Mann's image-laden tale of frustrated pederasty. Along with Librettist Myfanwy Piper, he has succeeded in drawing a sense of intense theatrical conflict from Mann's static interior monologue...