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	Mourning Becomes Electra
		It is, in short, the Electra story that he is retelling in more or less modern terms, substituting the white pillars of a country house in Civil War New England for the Doric columns of ancient Argos.
		It is, as every one knows, a story of revenge, a saga of the way in which fate calls upon Electra and her brother Orestes to avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by slaying their wicked mother, Clytemnestra, and her no less wicked lover, Ægisthus.
		Be that as it may, “Mourning Becomes Electra” is an achievement which restores the theater to its high estate.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra
		In Greek mythology, Electra is a daughtrer of Agamemnon who incited her brother Orestes to kill their mother, Clytemnestre, in revenge for the murder of their father.
		The sexual symbolism of the island is made recurrent It has same form of achievement when lavinia and Orin go on their voyage to forget…The symbolic killing of the father and the mother for the sake of gaining the love of the other parent receives application.
		It is suggested that after the actual murder is committed, Orin becomes a substitute for the Lavinia's lost father and Lavinia likewise for Orin 's lost loved mother.Both eventually attain purification through a kind of consoling and comforting compensation.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra
		O’Neill, who, according to Segal, went through life convinced that he should never have been born, or died soon afterwards, finds the character of Electra, who plays a minimal role in Aeschylus’ play, fascinating and chooses to view the family tragedy through her eyes.
		She notes that Abe built the house as a “temple for his hate.” This is a place of judgment, not mercy.
		Christine judges her husband and passes sentence; Lavinia judges her mother and lover, and passes sentence; Orin becomes a double for his father, and takes to studying the law, for he feels that Lavinia must not know happiness, but must be judged and punished.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Electra adores father, devoted to brother (who resembles father), hates mother--Orestes adores mother, devoted to sister (whose face resembles mother's), hates his father--Agamemnon, frustrated in love for Clytemnestra, adores daughter, Electra, who resembles her, hates and is jealous of his son, Orestes..."
		He then selected and explained his title: "'Mourning Becomes Electra'--that is, in old sense of the word--it befits--it becomes Electra to mourn--(it is her fate)--also, in usual sense (made ironical here), mourning (fl) is becoming to her--it is the only color that becomes her destiny..."
		On August 23, 1930 having tabulated the time spent thus far on Electra, O'Neill wrote to Manuel Komroff [his editor at the time] that he had "put in over 225 working days on this new job since the beginning of last November, which is harder than I've ever worked at a stretch before.
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	Aisle Say (Seattle): MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Watching the Mannons destroy one another, their family and its history, as well as themselves individually, we may have some trouble swallowing the melodrama, but O'Neill never lets us forget that it's also great drama.
		There is such precision in her smallest move, in the scale of her emotion, in the depth of her experience, that it elevates everyone else on stage.
		"Mourning Becomes Electra" will travel with him as his first production when he takes over as Artistic Director at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.
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	DVD Talk > Reviews > Mourning Becomes Electra > Printer Friendly
		Mourning Becomes Electra is as about as close as Eugene O'Neill ever got to the commercial mainstream.
		Costumes are coded light and dark to symbolize malevolence; at one point Orin sits in a tall chair and seems to become one of his own ancestors, the gallery of unhappy dead that rule the house from their portraits on the walls.
		Mourning Becomes Electra becomes an annihilating melodrama as deadly as a film noir; the mother-daughter pair of femme fatales set loose a chain reaction of killings and remorseful suicides that leave most of the cast dead.
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		Mourning Becomes Electra, motion picture about a brother and sister trying to avenge their father’s murder.
		Mourning, rituals and expressions of grief following bereavement.
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	SparkNotes: Mourning Becomes Electra: Context
		O'Neill chose Electra because he felt that her tale had been left incomplete.
		Thus Mourning aims to provide a "modern psychological approximation of the Greek sense of fate" in a time in which the notion of an inescapable and fundamentally non-redemptive determinism is incomprehensible.
		Mourning also provided O'Neill with an occasion to abandon the complex set design of the Art Theater, which he had long bemoaned as a constraint on the playwright's creative freedom.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/mourning/context.html (607 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) marked Rosalind Russell's second major dramatic role - and second Best Actress Oscar nomination - in a row after Sister Kenny (1946).
		Inspired by the "Oresteia" trilogy by Aeschylus, Mourning Becomes Electra sets the tragic action in 1865 Massachusetts, with Russell cast as Lavinia, a Civil War-era Electra.
		The most expensive project RKO had ever attempted, this "prestige" fl-and-white film was first released as a road-show attraction with an intermission, then trimmed by 25 minutes for the rest of its initial release.
	www.tcm.turner.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,21814,00.html (669 words)

	Mourning Becomes Electra/The Secret Rapture/The God Botherers \| Theatre Reviews \| tobyyoung.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mourning Becomes Electra is the real McCoy: a beautifully crafted, old-fashioned melodrama.
		Mourning Becomes Electra is a formal experiment in which O'Neill attempts to write a modern Greek tragedy substituting human psychology for the classical concept of fate.
		If you have any interest in the theatre at all, Mourning Becomes Electra is a must.
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	New Criterion: Mourning Becomes Electra.(Review)
		Mourning Becomes Electra, by Marvin David Levy, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
		While that observation remains contestable, the resurrection this fall of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra, in a new revised version, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago proves that there are definitely second acts in the lives of American operas.
		Mourning Becomes Electra was adapted from Eugene O'Neill's six-and-a-half hour dramatic trilogy, which transfers Aeschylus' Oresteia to a New England seaport...
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	Film Threat - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Mourning Becomes Electra" is based on the 1931 drama by Eugene O'Neill, who was arguably America's greatest playwright.
		RKO released "Mourning Becomes Electra" as a roadshow attraction and the result was a box office catastrophe.
		"Mourning Becomes Electra" was later remade in its six hour entirety as a PBS mini-series in the late 1970s.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mourning Becomes Electra is a play by (Click link for more info and facts about Eugene O'Neill) Eugene O'Neill.
		It tells the story of a poisonous, incestuous family that is based on the (Click link for more info and facts about Greek myth) Greek myth of ((Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus) Orestes.
		It was adapted and directed by (Click link for more info and facts about Dudley Nichols) Dudley Nichols.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mo/Mourning_Becomes_Electra.htm (110 words)

	Where Love is No Sin: The Blessed Isles in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra
		After the thirteen acts of Mourning Becomes Electra life of the Mannons is near to being destroyed.
		He used many motifs repeatedly in his many plays before Mourning Becomes Electra and also in the coming great dramas; death, incest, heredity from generation to generation, allusions to colors, day and night cycles, sunsets and twilights, the moon, the fog, the sea, and islands are but a few.
		Mourning Becomes Electra abounds from motifs of Greek myth and Freudian psychology.
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	Three Plays : Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra...
		It is a family chronicle, of sorts, following the life of Nina Leeds and her family in a small university town in New England - from her early days as a young woman mourning the loss of her ideal lover during WWI, through her middle age years.
		It is the story of a family's secret and their determination to keep this secret unknown by others, and sometimes even to themselves.
		Mourning Becomes Electra, based on the Greek Electra myth, is especially wonderful.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra Store Buy Sell mourning becomes electras Shopping mourning becom electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anyhow her casting in MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA was an inspiration that could have been good, but somehow, the movie got away from the makers.
		But instead of ending with a new notion of justice, "Mourning Becomes Electra" concludes with the symbolic end of the Mannon family.
		For me there is another intervening layer because I know that when RKO bought the rights to "Mourning Becomes Electra" Katharine Hepburn tried to put together a production in which she would play Lavinia and Greta Garbo would come out of retirement to play Christine.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra Summary & Essays - Eugene O'Neill
		Mourning Becomes Electra Summary & Essays - Eugene O'Neill
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		Mourning Becomes Electra is considered O'Neill's most ambitious work.
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	Mourning Becomes Electra
		O'Neill gives not only size but weight in "Mourning Becomes Electra," which the Theatre Guild mounted at its own theatre for the greater part of yesterday afternoon and evening.
		As the title acknowledges, "Mourning Becomes Electra," follows the scheme of the Orestes- Electra legend which Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes translated into drama in the days of Greek classicism.
		From that point on "Mourning Becomes Electra" stretches out as a strong chain of murders and revenge and the house of Mannon is a little island walled round with the dead.
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	Variety.com - Reviews - Mourning Becomes Electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Marvin David Levy's newly revised "Mourning Becomes Electra" makes a number of convincing arguments, not the least of which is this: Eugene O'Neill's play, based on Aeschylus' "Oresteia," is better suited to opera than to drama.
		Three brief passages dally with lyricism: Orin's meditation "How Death Becomes the Mannons," which he sings at his father's bier; a sweet song delivered by Orin's acquaintance Helen, as she tries to win his love; and a quartet sung by Christine, Adam, Lavinia and Orin in a quiet moment before Adam's murder.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117922360?categoryid=33&cs=1 (821 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Mourning Becomes Electra
		The director's current staging of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" also starts with a bang -- a series of bangs, actually, evoking the explosive salutes that greeted the end of the Civil War.
		ACT's production of "Mourning Becomes Electra," though for many reasons not a rollicking evening at the theater, amply demonstrates why the Seattle theater scene will miss Edelstein very much.
		"Mourning Becomes Electra," like "The Oresteia" on which it is based, witnesses what happens when the sins of parents -- adultery and lovelessness -- are visited on their children.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117917627?categoryid=33&cs=1 (1009 words)

	Seattle Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As for Mourning Becomes Electra, Levy’s opera was critically acclaimed—Leonard Bernstein called it “a tremendous achievement, a remarkable work, stunningly performed”—but Mourning vanished after two years.
		After becoming aware of what I was doing naturally, I can tell you now that with the revisions, what I’ve done is a twentieth-century bel canto opera—not based on serialism.
		When Levy wrote the first version of Mourning Becomes Electra, in the mid-twentieth century, serious composers used big orchestras and arcane harmonic languages—serialism, dodecaphonism, atonality—to express the inner lives of characters who no longer sang pretty tunes.
	www.seattleopera.org /operas/2003-2004/mourning/composer.aspx (1065 words)

	DVD : Mourning Becomes Electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The studios were bowing down to her, and she started flexing her muscles and chewing up the kind of parts that hitherto she had been excluded even from dreaming about.
		"Mourning Becomes Electra" is not simply Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the "Orestia" by Aeschylus.
		The ancient Greek tragedy, which has the distinction of being the first dramatic work to be performed a second time, was a celebration of the Athenian system of justice.
	www.ajeno.com /B00068NVK2/Mourning_Becomes_Electra.shtml (541 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Mourning Becomes Electra -
		Instructively, the Pulitzer that year went to the Gershwin-Kaufman-Ryskind romp Of Thee I Sing; but Mourning was the work that truly unsettled theatergoers, confronted them with their own unexplored feelings about family and fate, and clued them into O'Neill's own unresolved furies about same.
		Mourning Becomes Electra originally ran well over five hours; this production clocks in at about 3:40 minutes, and while it's seldom dull, it's no dog race.
		You exit Mourning Becomes Electra not with the tidy satisfaction of seeing a rogue's gallery of miscreants get its just desserts but in awe of the depths of human depravity.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=2849 (1120 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Mourning Becomes Electra (1979)
		Eugene O'Neill is one of the most important American playwrights in history, and Mourning Becomes Electra is his magnum opus.
		As a work, Mourning Becomes Electra is an astounding mix of Greek myth, Freudian and Jungian psychology, classic theater styles, and reckless avant-gardism.
		This allows you to see Mourning Becomes Electra in relatively unbroken succession (each episode ends with an afterward by Erich Segal, which is often more interesting than the show itself), so the scope that the piece so desperately needs is regained.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1824 (1172 words)

	DVD : Eugene 0'Nei11's Mourning Becomes Electra (Broadway Theatre Archive) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I saw this production when it first aired on PBS in the 1970's and I believe that I was a little too greatful four the chance to see 0'Nei11's play "Mourning Becomes Electra" in any form and thought I was entranced by the performance.
		I think the problem lies in the director's choice not to give us the stark acting of Expressionism that "Mourning Becomes Electra" needs to send it into the theatrical stratusphere of Hitchcockian detached horror.
		I find myself lucky to have attended the Met's performance of Martin David-Levy's opera based on "Mourning Becomes Electra" and although the faux atonal orchestrations tended to obliterate the beauty of much of the music the production itself designed by the formidible Boris Aronson to the audience right back to the Greeks.
	www.firesidelounge.info /B00005OCL5/Eugene_ONei11s_Mourning_Becomes_Electra_Broadway_Theatre_Archive.shtml (926 words)

	Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill at Lyttelton National Theatre
		Howard Davies’ mammoth four and a half hour production of “Mourning becomes Electra” breathes dramatic life into Eugene O’Neil’s melodramatic retelling of the matricidal Electra, from the Greek tragedy ‘The Oresteia’.
		However, in Davies’ capable hands “Mourning Becomes Electra” is inflamed with passion, a passion that ferments the play’s dark obsessive emotions into an intoxicating brew.
		Here both the Electra and Oedipus complex are written in large bold colours.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/mourningbecomeselectra03.htm (693 words)

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