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Want the TAPE!!!,
By LaShawnda Wrice (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Gospel at Colonus (Paperback)
The Gospel of Colonus "Greatest Performances" on video IS the BEST performances I have ever seen. I have searched HI and LOW for the video and still no luck. It has to be away to get this video!!! All I have is the PBS version (shown in 1985)and you can imagine how it is now. (sad face) But I recommend that EVERYONE see this performance. The story of Oedipus transformed into a gospel play that will send shivers up your spine! As you look at the video, you will forget where you are at the moment and think that you are there. I am sure the book is great, but the PLAY is AWESOME!!! I believe the play is MUCH better than the book because you can live it an feel what each character is feeling. THEY NEED TO PRINT THE MOVIE!!! WE NEED BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!
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A memory without pain...,
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Of course everybody knows the Oedipus myth, it's like something out of a Jerry Springer show {grin}. But what happened afterwards? This adaptation of Sophocles' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by Lee Breuer retains the spirit of the Greek playwright's reflections upon death, while giving it a baptism into the African-American church. But it is Bob Telson's gospel/blues-inflected songs (performed by the Soul Stirrers, Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, among others) on the cast album (not included here, this is just a paperback, the text of the play) that make this 'Gospel' experience what it is. ...It only had a short run on Broadway in the 1980's, yet the memories will reverberate long afterwards... Be sure to get the cast CD for maximum enjoyment... ...Pity the GREAT PERFORMANCES video is out of print...
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I want the tape as well! Saw it on PBS and like the rest of the reviewers can't find it any where. HELP!
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- Make It New by Ezra Pound in Front Matter
- Sister Suzie Cinema: Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986 by Lee Breuer in Front Matter
- New York Times Theater Reviews,1987-1988 by Random House Staff on 5 pages
- Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Edith Hall on 5 pages
- Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (New Classical Canon) by Ruby Blondell on page 38, and Back Matter
- Actors' Lives: On and Off the American Stage by Holly Hill on page 137, and page 146
- Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (The New Classical Canon) by Ruby Blondell on page 38, and Back Matter
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