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| Iphegenia in Greek | |
| Posted by: bmc 06:18 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| Cacoyanis directed Miss Papas, as Clytemnestra, in the film Iphigenia(1977) in Greek with English subtitles. Six years earlier, in the TROJAN WOMEN, Pappas played Cylemnestra's sister Helen of Troy. Filmed in English, it starred Katherine Hepburn as Hecuba Queen of Troy, Vanessa Redgrave as Hector's widow and Genevieve Bujold as Cassandra. Four actresses from four different countries, and they were just extraordinary together. If you can find the DVDs they worth getting | |
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| re: Iphegenia in Greek | |
| Posted by: MFeingold 08:26 am EST 12/21/17 | |
| In reply to: Iphegenia in Greek - bmc 06:18 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| Well before either film, Cacoyannis had directed both plays Off-Broadway, at the old Circle in the Square on Bleecker Street (the current Broadway version of that institution had not yet been built). THE TROJAN WOMEN (1963) cast included Mildred Dunnock as Hecuba, Joyce Ebert as Andromache, Carrie Nye as Cassandra and Jane White as Helen. The IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (1967) cast featured Papas as Clytemnestra, with Mitchell Ryan as Agamemnon and Chris Walken as Achilles. Both productions were formalized and seemed rather staid, but some of the acting - Dunnock, Ebert, Walken - was pretty spectacular. Papas was a powerful Clytemnestra. She also played Agave in THE BACCHAE for Cacoyannis at the uptown Circle in the Square, which I didn't see. |
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| Link | Michael Cacoyannis at Lortel Archives |
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| re: Iphegenia in Greek | |
| Posted by: stan 09:11 am EST 12/21/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Iphegenia in Greek - MFeingold 08:26 am EST 12/21/17 | |
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| I also saw her (I think at the new Circle in the Square) in Medea. That was powerful. | |
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| re: Iphegenia in Greek | |
| Posted by: MFeingold 09:35 am EST 12/21/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Iphegenia in Greek - stan 09:11 am EST 12/21/17 | |
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| That was directed by Minos Volanakis - a very brilliant man who also directed the US premiere of Genet's THE SCREENS Off-Broadway, with unforgettable costumes by Willa Kim. Julie Bovasso and Grayson Hall were in the cast. I didn't see his MEDEA, but I don't doubt that he and Papas together knew how to mine that play's dark power. | |
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| re: Iphegenia in Greek/Walken in Shakespeare | |
| Posted by: bmc 04:13 pm EST 12/21/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Iphegenia in Greek - MFeingold 09:35 am EST 12/21/17 | |
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| The mention of Mr Walken reminded me of seeing him as Shakespeare's Richard II. He was the guest artist with the Um of Mich student theater program. He was excellent. and (I think he's tall) he had a way of striding across the stage, that seemed perfect, for King Richard. He didn't seem to continue in a popular split, e.g. popular films/classical theater, that Kevin Kline and(fill in the name of you favorite Brit_) have done. But his Richard II in fall of '78(before release of THE DEER HUNTER) was the only time I saw him on stage, and, other than THE DEAD, I can't,off the top of my head, remember his stage credits. | |
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