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...turn of the century with Gide, who wrote stage pieces about Philoctetes, Prometheus, and Oedipus. Montherlant turn-to Pasipha*e, and Cocteau dramatized Antigone, Orpheus, and Oedipus. Claudel turned to Proteus, and did a version of Aeschylus' entire Orestes trilogy. Giraudoux turned to Amphitryon, Electra, and the Trojan War, while Sartre refashioned the Oresteia in his Les Mouches. As part of this movement, then, Anouilh wrote not only Antigone, but plays about Eurydice and Medea...
...Trojan Women by Europides opens at Agassiz Theatre. There will also be performances on July...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
...Harvard archeologist has confirmed the legend about Greek heroes wandering through Turkey after the Trojan...
Mihajlov's demand for a multiparty system, he warned the court, was "a Trojan horse for the restoration of capitalism...