From ev23@umail.umd.edu Mon Sep 4 05:56:49 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA12240 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 05:56:49 -0700 Received: from umailsrv2.umd.edu (umailsrv2.umd.edu [128.8.10.76]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA25859 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 05:56:48 -0700 Received: from umail.umd.edu (bay1-21.dial.umd.edu [128.8.22.21]) by umailsrv2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26834 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 08:51:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39B39BA2.500CF40F@umail.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:54:59 -0400 From: Elizabeth Vandiver X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Darker Face of Earth References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I saw a production of "The Darker Face of the Earth" at England's National Theatre (in the Cottesloe, the smallest venue there) in 1999, and was very, very impressed by it--much more so, apparently, than the writer of the review MJ quotes for us. I went into the play with no foreknowledge at all of the subject matter, and for the first 45 minutes or so had kept having this nagging sense of "something's familiar here.". (I'm hedging my bets by putting a period on either side of the quotation mark!) The instant when it hit me that yes, this is very familiar territory indeed, in fact we're smack in the middle of the Oedipus story, was one of the most memorable moments I've ever had in a theatre--I had to restrain myself from laughing aloud with sheer delight (it was NOT a humorous moment in the play, so laughter didn't seem appropriate!). I'm not sure how well the script would read, but I'd strongly recommend that anyone who has a chance to see a production do so. Elizabeth Vandiver Mark Joseph wrote: > Once again with apologies if this has already been posted/discussed. > > Mark Joseph > > *** .