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...plays by MacLeish, "The Trojan Horse" and "This Music Crept by Me Upon the Sea," were recently produced by the Poets Theatre. He currently teaches an advance English course in creative writing...
Donald Mork did the settings for both plays. The simple arrangements of a column, some stones, and a backdrop in the Trojan Horse help create a bleak atmosphere while the house and garden in This Music are more orthodox as realistic sets...
Both are one act plays, the first concerned with the individual's search for peace within himself, the second with the blind actions of the mob mind. The Trojan Horse, presented second, is the better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
While these sections of long lyric verse are quite effective in The Trojan Horse, some equally fine poetry in This Music Crept by me upon the Sea is not always good drama. The first third of the play is set in the tropics at a cocktail party, where long passages of meaningful poetry alternate with more prosaic conversation. The poetry itself is movingly beautiful; it fails only when it crashes against the earthy prose of the cocktail hour. The author faces with no such problem in The Trojan Horse, whose universality is well suited to the verse form...
...result, the first scene of This Music is a little like a game of musical chairs. Heroine Amanda Steele has the same trouble. Her dreamy wanderings often seem unreal. She plays her part, however, with an understanding equal to that which she showed in her capable direction of The Trojan Horse...