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Show ibune ENTERTAINMENT/HEALTH & SCIENCE TheSalt Lake Thursday September 30, 1999 ‘Libation Bearers’ an Interesting Update on 2,000-Year-Old Tragedy REVIEW BY SCOTT C. MORGAN HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE What starts out as a ritual liba: tion of pouring wine over the e of a murdered father ends mother @ Revenge Tour the tant parallels to young gang mem bers asthey revel inretellingtheir a” trilogy, the vengeful family members of the cursed house of And the youth-inspired exu berancefrom the performanceis t In geful son “The rers.” second play in Ae sclulic’ "Orest \treus fulfill their tragicdestinies set in place by the generation be fore them: In the Classical Greek Theatre Festival's “Libation Bearers, there are no single actors playing the mythological roles of the mother Clytemnestra or of her children Orestes and Electra. In id, director Helen E. Richard son has pushed the entire chorus into the forefront as each membi rotates in and out of the play's majorroles. Whilethis practice is a direct turnaround from Aeschylus’ rev olutionary Greekdrama device of adding a second actor to his early plays, the way Richardson and her changeling chorus manifest the Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Red Butte Garden Amphi theatre in Salt Lake City: and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m that is over 2.000 years old, a youthful and multicultural sheen shines from everything that has in the de Jong Theater at Brigham Young Univer. in Provo. Tickets are ral, $5 for stu gone into the production. African and Latin rhythms gener alt Lake City: musician Zoey Scott. Ensemble members Scott id Schuyler Meyers contributed to thescore, producing choral odes that are appealing to modern ears. Melissa Heston for students in Provo. punctuate the performance from percussionist Pierre Dufresne and has Although the are cos: tumedtobe analogous, individual performers dostand out. Strong, stylized work comes from an an choreo- graphed the ensemble well, par- ar Alfred Lawrence. while Jes: ticularly the swing-dance reunion of Orestes and Electra (danced with wild abandon by Liz Burmester and Joel Stanley Huff) to an catches the audience's focus when approximation of Benny Good- limb with tattoos and the o a man’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.” Heston also works in a pulsating Latin “street carnival” number with an enormous warrior-maskeddancer on stilts alongsidea sv neseribbon dance Electra resolve to avenge the sional body piercing. The uniform. attire by Brenda Van der Wiel black and red plus whiteface makeup— quashes any overt ther) by killing his murdere Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. on the actor the chorus mem: the gang name of lined limb from Festival Tour pro duction of Ae: , “The Libation Bearers’ continues Saturday and all-persuasive. In tackling Peter Meineck’s translation of a text play dissipates any initial confu: Capitalizing youth culture, bers whocarry the Furies are atre favorite violent movie plots. sion over this unusual theatrical convention. The Classical Greek The- individuality. With all these devices inplace, you get the feeling that Richardson is drawing dis: death of Roylance’s operatic range her voice soars through choral odes. Taft Hart is a funny and campyNurse lamenting about the troubles of raising infants < JeremyRishe’s calculation to cry crocodiletears as Aegisthus over the newsofa dead Orestes is cun ning and dastardly While Richardsonandhercrew find many s to makethe con stant reflections on revenge in “TheLibation Bearers” entertain: ing, some ofthe play’s messages are slighted by the production's Agamemnon(their fa- pursuit. to be continually “Libation Bearers” Josh Koneghi(clockwisefrom top), Alfred Lawrence, essa Roylance, Leah Crockett. inventiveinits staging. All of the sound and fury presented by the actors is expertly executed, but sometimesthe meaning that spurs ontheir work is missing, Still, “The Libation Bearer doesn't leave the audience la menting over lost time spent onan archaic drama. Instead, the mod ernism layered over the work allows the audience to easily identify with the characters and situations in “The Libation Bear ers.” and to learn from its violent andrevengeful outcomes. You May Need a Pap Smear Taking Kids to Casinos Is Not a Wise Gamble Even After a Hysterectomy Dear Ann: Mywife andI re cently returned froma vacation ANN LANDERS in Nevada. As seniorcitizens, we T recently hada hysterecto- my. Do still need Pap smears, YOUR HEALTH and if I do, howoften? I hear differing opinions from my Howoften you will need a Pap smeardependson the reason you had the hysterectomy. 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