Rebecca P-H’s Reviews > When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy > Status Update

"the terminally silent Pylades" oh man the pattern in contemporary Oresteia adaptations with the character of Pylades being collapsed into Electra (no Pylades in Icke or Farber or McLaughlin) already at work in Sophocles. he loses a voice with which to invoke Apollo because she's taken it over.

I'm making this Electra chapter fight (and defeat) the Batchelder book The Seal of Orestes

something very specific about apostrophe within the theater I think. addressing someone/something that's not present to answer in a context whose basis is messing around with what 'present to answer' means. for a hero to cry out means to see that there is a bigger picture which is to anticipate AN audience if not this theatrical audience.

this on Ajax's lyrical/poetic/metrical isolation from the others on stage pairs very nicely with Afroditi Angelopoulou on how the unusual chorus of military-age men highlights Ajax's corporeal/choreographic isolation from them, the group with whom he ought to be in sync. has me thinking about Harry Beaton in Brigadoon actually, dancing in counterpoint to the male ensemble and often cut off from their singing

this on Ajax's lyrical/poetic/metrical isolation from the others on stage pairs very nicely with Afroditi Angelopoulou on how the unusual chorus of military-age men highlights Ajax's corporeal/choreographic isolation from them, the group with whom he ought to be in sync. has me thinking about Harry Beaton in Brigadoon actually, dancing in counterpoint to the male ensemble and often cut off from their singing

Hadestown Sophoclean authorship confirmed

I definitely need to talk to Sarah about the possibility of Sophocles himself playing the title role in his Thamyras like the Vita claims. and the even more speculative possibility that he played Philomela in his Tereus, a role that would've been the polar opposite of Thamyras but would've ALSO been poet-analogous, working with a different idea of the 'poet' more based in the written word than earlier decades...