Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain at Pi Eta opens on a starkly effective silhouette of Peter Prangnell's representation of the Trojan Gate of War, but Giradoux's Tiger at the Gates is not a play about Trojans or even about Giradoux's France and Germany: despite its setting it contains much drawing room comedy, while being concerned with the "stupidity of men and the elements." The HDC production manages to carry it all off with verve...
...whole historical crowd is there --from Priam all the way to the face that launched a thousand ships. But some of them you might not recognize right away. Giraudoux has chosen his Trojan locale with malice afore-thought. He seems to delight in slipping in anachronistic elements, such as references to the "middle class." Entering the spirit of the thing, director John Beck appears to have added a few of his own: one bare-chested sailor sports a tattoo reading "Mother" --but in Greek, of course...
When a play centers around the impotence of giants and their helplessness at the hands of destiny and trivial accident, the presence of some few gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing...
...solemn tragedy. In Graves's view, the poem is a satirical work in which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose courts he recited, while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax...
Seattle, Showboat Theater: Euripides' The Trojan Women, produced by the University of Washington's School of Drama...