Volume 9, Number 2 · August 3, 1967
Prometheus at Yale
By Francis Fergusson
Prometheus Bound
derived from Aeschylus by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller
According to a story in the Sunday Times, the group that produced Robert Lowell's Prometheus Bound at the Yale School of Drama had expected to evoke the enthusiasm only of the embattled cognoscenti, so that when Walter Kerr reviewed it with enthusiasm they were surprised and not entirely pleased. What becomes of one's Promethean defiance when the Zeus of the entertainment industry comes in person to offer his accolades? The occasion is thus full of confusion, though happy confusion. Moreover, it happily indicates that the School of Drama, under its new Dean, Robert Brustein, has adopted a new and more interesting policy. To judge by the talents that were brought together for this show, Mr. Brustein has a knack (like the late Diaghilev and Lincoln Kirstein) for assembling the right artists—which augurs well for the future of the school.
Review, 2417 words
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