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["Bury the Dead"] presents the finest image that has appeared in our theatre this year. A great theatre image is when there is discovered something seen and done in which the central idea is completely expressed, and is revealed without effort, as if creation had fully taken place already and were all exhibited. Not often in drama anywhere do we find so powerful an image as dominates the whole of "Bury the Dead." A myth is created, a veritable fable is established. When these six dead men arise from their graves and refuse to be buried, the imagination is shocked and caught by the sheer sight of them and the light upon them: Possibilities in fear and living variety, nostalgia, and pity, immediately swarm to the full powers of the stage. As theatre image this motif ranks with the entrance of Oedipus with his blinded eyes, in Sophocles'...
This section contains 340 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |