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	Orpheus Descending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams.
		The play is a retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus legend in modern clothes and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem and revitalize life, giving it new meaning.
		Val, representing Orpheus, represents the forces of energy and eros which, buried as they are in compromise and everyday mundanity, have the tragic power to create life anew.
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		According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, and the muse Calliope.
		Orpheus learned music from Linus, or from Apollo, who was also his lover and who gave him his own lyre (made by Hermes out of a turtle shell) as a gift.
		Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone (the only person to ever do so), who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth.
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	Orpheus Descending. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Orpheus Descending was first presented on Broadway in 1957 where it enjoyed a brief run and only modest success.
		The play is a retelling of the Orpheus legend and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem life and return it to meaning.
		Val as Orpheus, represents the force of energy and eros which buried as they are in compromise and in humdrum everydayness have the tragic power to make life anew.
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	Public Art Fund: In the Public Realm: Paul Pfeiffer
		Above the steady flow of pedestrian traffic, Orpheus Descending displayed the ten-week life cycle of a flock of chickens as they hatched from their eggs and developed from day old chicks to full grown adults.
		Orpheus Descending is a project of the Public Art Fund, commissioned through In the Public Realm, a program of site specific proposals and projects by New York artists.
		Orpheus Descending was viewed on video monitors at the bottom of the escalators to the New Jersey PATH trains at the World Trade Center and on the North Bridge of the World Financial Center.
	www.publicartfund.org /pafweb/archive/ar_realm/pfeiffer_p_01.htm (352 words)

	Spunk, but Little Spark, in Arena's 'Orpheus Descending' (washingtonpost.com)
		"Orpheus Descending" is by and large a tragic fable, the account of the rejuvenating effect Val has on Lady, and how an abusive, intolerant world punishes them both.
		An undercurrent of hysteria suffuses "Orpheus Descending," from the holy-roller ranting of the sheriff's wife, Vee Talbott (an excellent Janice Duclos), to the libido-driven entreaties of the neurotic rich girl, Carol Cutrere (the superb Kate Goehring).
		"Orpheus Descending" is by no means an easy play; the role of Val, like many of Williams's fantastical hustlers and he-men, may be darn near impossible.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Orpheus Descending at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is a famous one in "Orpheus Descending," the 1957 revision of his 1940 "Battle of Angels" about a bird with no feet that lives on the wing.
		There is an equivalent to Orpheus being torn to pieces, but it is men, not women who do so (with a blowtorch rather than their bare hands).
		There isn't any sex in "Orpheus Descending." There are imputations by townspeople of infidelity and fornication, but none is warranted by what occurs during the play.
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	Orpheus Descending Summary
		Orpheus Descending, in fact, descends from Williams’s first produced full-length play, Battle of Angels, which opened to disastrous reviews in 1940.
		Both Orpheus Descending and its antecedent concern the arrival of a virile stranger in the midst of a repressed Southern community.
		While the psychosexual dynamic that fuels most of Williams’s work was present in the earlier play, a surfeit of incident coupled with an excess of religious and pagan imagery threatened to overwhelm it.
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	Orpheus Descending (1994): Program
		ORPHEUS DESCENDING is not quite the masterp iece STREETCAR is. It lacks some of the rueful grace of the GLASS MENAGERIE and the total impact of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF or GARDEN DISTRICT.
		Orpheus was griefstricken over the death of his wife, whom he loved passionately, and determined to descend into the Underworld to get her back.
		Orpheus was inconsolable over the death of his wife and vowed never to love another woman.
	www.millsaps.edu /theatre/archives/orpheuspro.html (1187 words)

	Orpheus Descending Summary & Essays - Tennessee Williams
		Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams (New York, 1958, currently in print, published by Dramatist's Play Service), opened in 1957 in New York City.
		Although Williams was at the time an established playwright, having had huge success with The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), and other plays, Orpheus Descending was harshly criticized and widely considered a failure.
		In Orpheus Descending, a young charismatic musician descends on a small, repressive southern town.
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		Eurydice returns to the group which Orpheus has now transformed with the magical power of his art.
		Orpheus pulls a bleeding Eurydice from the wreckage.
		Eurydice is dying while Orpheus in despair tries to keep her alive with the sound of his clarinet.
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	Encyclopedia article: Orpheus Descending (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Orpheus Descending is a play by Tennessee Williams (United States playwright (1911-1983)).
		It was first presented on Broadway (A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters) in 1957 where it enjoyed a brief run with only modest success.
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	Orpheus Descending, a CurtainUp DC review
		Based upon the Greek myth of Orpheus, Williams imbued the play with several layers of Christian symbolism along with the Greek influence, as well as incorporating aspects from his own youthful experiences growing up in the South.
		Although many still feel the playwright tried to do too much, it is on a whole an interesting stark drama that is at times insightfully comic and continues to speak to the times that we live in.
		Orpheus Descending is definitely a must see, especially if you are investing time in the other Tennessee Williams productions going on around town.
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	Orpheus Descending (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If there is a stage direction in director Kymm Zuckert's copy of Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending that says "to be acted lyrically," she would have done better by the Love Creek production if she had ignored it.
		And in Orpheus Descending, the symbolism hangs thick, and the exposition is lengthy.
		So when Val Xavier (Val short for Valentine) tells Lady Torrance about the bird that cannot land but must stay in the air flying until it dies, it would be more meaningful (and less heavy-handed) if Val were talking about it for reasons other than metaphor.
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	Metroactive Stage \| 'Orpheus Descending'
		Orpheus Descending, now onstage at Pegasus Theater under the direction of Michael Tabib, is Tennessee Williams' updated retelling of another Greek myth about Hades.
		This one concerns a musician who braves the underworld to rescue his beloved from the clutches of death.
		'Orpheus Descending' continues through Aug. 24 at Pegasus Hall, 20347 Hwy.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/08.08.02/orpheus-0232.html (585 words)

	Aisle Say, Boston -- Orpheus Descending
		"Orpheus Descending" is set wide and shallow in the Huntington Studio's fl box.
		The nurturing father-gods of Val's pantheon are the great fl blues musicians of the thirties -- just niggers, as far as this town is concerned..
		Val is a musician who descends into hell, and he may even have some of the mesmerizing glitter of the immortal Orpheus: it is a part that may make use of an androgynous, Dionysian beauty.
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	Orpheus Descending. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PS Its weak point and this is a real problem is the lack of compelling music.
		Orpheus personifies the power of music and without it, the title character is lacking.
		(For a better portrayal of the Orpheus myth, see Orphee, Black Orpheus or Wild at Heart).
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	Orpheus Descending (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A startlingly brave and bizarre adaptation of one of Williams' most complicated plays, Peter Hall's Orpheus Descending would certainly merit the tag "original" if it were not rendered so exactly along the baroquely stylized lines laid out by Williams in the text of his play.
		Lady Torrance is the sort of role (particularly since Williams wrote it) that one imagines Anna Magnani playing, and in fact she did; Magnani inhabited the same role in Sidney Lumet's The Fugitive Kind, his 1959 adaptation of the same Williams play.
		Like the play itself, Redgrave is occasionally a bit too histrionic for her own good, and by the end of Orpheus Descending, Williams has characteristically packed in so much physical and emotional trauma that the film threatens to buckle under the weight of its own malignancy.
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	'Orpheus Descending'? - Arts and Faith
		I just heard a promo for a D.C. production of the play — on the commercial-free Christian radio station! I was shocked because this station bills itself as “family-friendly” and runs incessant, and to my mind, way off-the-mark promos that associate “safe” art with Christian living.
		Williams wrestled with and rewrote the play for years, and it's now considered by most of his critics to be another of his many interesting failures.
		I posted my question about the Tennessee Williams play on a local radio message board, because I know that the GM of the station that aired the PSA reads and posts to the same board.
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	Orpheus Descending tickets - Orpheus Descending information - Canada
		Orpheus Descending was Tennessee Williams's first full-length play.
		The title invokes the Greek myth of Orpheus, who tried in vain to rescue his wife Eurydice from Hell.
		In this play, Hell is a small Southern town full of hypocrisy and racism; Orpheus is a drifter in a snakeskin jacket; and Eurydice is Lady Torrance, a woman trapped in a loveless and violent marriage.
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	Orpheus
		Another legend says that Orpheus taught the Thracian men to worship the sun (Apollo) above all other gods; in revenge Dionysus caused the wives of the Thracian men to murder their husbands and tear Orpheus to pieces.
		It was said that his head was thrown into the river Hebrus and floated, still singing, into the sea to the island of Lesbos, where an oracle of Orpheus was established.
		Like a Leviathan: ten years ago, Orpheus was born big; over the decade it would become more spectacular, too.
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	Orpheus Descending tickets - Orpheus Descending information - London
		This take on the myth of Orpheus is one of Tennessee Williams' most gripping dramas.
		Set in a small-minded small town, the show follows a handsome young man as he pursues an affair with an unhappily married older woman.
		Written in 1957, Orpheus Descending is a rework of Williams' own Battle of Angels.
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	Playbill News: Aida's Matt Bogart Cast in D.C. Orpheus Descending
		Matt Bogart, who was part of the world-premiere company of Frank Wildhorn's Camille Claudel, has been cast in the upcoming production of Orpheus Descending at the Arena Stage.
		He was also recently part of the premiere cast of Frank Wildhorn's Camille Claudel at the Goodspeed.
		Orpheus Descending will play the Arena Stage's Kreeger Theatre.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/85300.html (359 words)

	Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
		He also designed the new Cirque du Soleil show, Dralion (April, 1999) and the Compagnie Jean Duceppe revival production of La mort d'un commis voyageur (April, 1999).
		Barbeau also directs, now, including La Déscente d'Orphée/Orpheus Descending (Compagnie Jean Duceppe), Le Père Noël est une ordure (Théâtre de La Licorne), À propos des Williams (Espace Go) and, more recently (November, 2000) L'Heureux Stratagème at Rideau Vert.
		In 1996 he won a Governor General's Award and in 1999 was inducted into the Order of Canada.
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		The image of fire recurs throughout the movie, both as a symbol of sexual passion and as a harbinger of fearsome cruelty.
		If we recall that Orpheus descended into Hades, this ashcan of a town is effectively hell.
		Kevin Anderson is very convincing as a southern drifter who conceals a kind heart.
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	The Helen Mirren Appreciation Society - Filmography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her flight is brief and the price she pays is steep.
		Previews for Tennessee William’s Orpheus Descending began June 15, 2000.
		It ran at London’s Donmar Warehouse from June 27 through August 12.
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		Kevin Anderson is outstanding, and Redgrave cannot be topped.
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	Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in New York City March 21 in History
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