Word: trojan
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...TROJAN WOMEN. With anguish, protective passion and wounded nobility, Mildred Dunnock, Joyce Ebert and Carrie Nye decry their fate, surrounded by a chorus whose every movement echoes the powerful and evocative words of the Euripides classic...
...TROJAN WOMEN. This masterly revival of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion and cruel inner hurt. Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of truth-that they are worthy of the playwright...
...White America, pain is self-contained; in The Trojan Women, grief screams like a woman in childbirth. This Edith Hamilton translation of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and such cruel inner hurt that the stoniest playgoer must seek relief in tears. Pain paints the backdrop like a sky of blood. Pain drums the floor boards in the rhythmic open-palmed agony of the bowed women who must become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks. Pain frantically grips a little boy between his mother's legs before...
...class comics, Nym and Bardolph are in the capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
...room was part of an attic, dusty, stale, and dead. But as Friedman has decorated it, the room is almost oppressive in its humanity. At odd corners of the room are numerous animals; each comes as a surprise. Swinging from the sloppy bookshelf is a toy monkey. A pink trojan horse and grey kitten sit on the desk. Also on the desk stands a willow plant, to which is attached a single large, yellow bee. And a gaint green cotton frog is perched on the magazine table...