Yo - Primal Monster-Goddess... get yer ass in here.

[Dillinger]

Yeah you - Eumenides. Enough unnnatural Lit time has passed that I figured it about time that someone complimented you on your excellent user name... (though it only feels like seconds)

*smile*

Now where is that chorus when I need it?

 

[Nora]

Actually, that job was taken care of some time ago. But as long as you don't mind sloppy seconds. Or um. Probably 5ths in this case.

 

[Dillinger]

Which job? The chorus?

And are you referring to perfect 5ths or augmented 5ths?

 

[Eumenides]

Ah, you're sneaky.

I didn't see you in here.

Yes, I have been asked about my name, and some have known.

But thank you for the compliment.

I don't know where the chorus is, but I plan to sing drunkenly at my party. If only I could get the damned mic to work!

 

[Dillinger]

Hey - there's nothing quite like a sneaky backhanded compliment! *lol*

 

[Dillinger]

Actually - it wasn't backhanded at all - just sneaky.

So - you ready for the third act yet?

 

[Eumenides]

Actually, I'm in the end of the play...

They were the furies for the first four and a half acts...

 

[Dillinger]

Which play are YOU in?

I'm in Aeschylus' trilogy - Oresteia - only 3 acts. The Eumenides being the third act...

 

[Eumenides]

No, silly. The trilogy is three PLAYS.

Each play is made up of five ACTS.

 

[Eumenides]

The Orestia:

Agamemnon (5 Acts)

The Libation Bearers (5 Acts)

The Eumenides (5 Acts)

And remember folks! I don't mend them:

Euripides pants, Eumenides pants.

*Haven't told a bad joke like that in ages, and even that's an oldie*

 

[Dillinger]

Really? Ooops...

"Produced in 458 B.C., the Oresteia is the only surviving complete trilogy that we have. (Although the three Sophocles plays dealing with the Oedipus myth are sometimes called "The Oedipus Trilogy," Sophocles never presented those works together. In fact, the plays were written separately over the span of decades.) " -- from the Richmond Lattimore translation...

"Consistent with the norms of Greek drama, The Eumenides is not divided into acts or discrete scenes. There is a scene change in the middle of the play, but that can be accomplished with minimal movement of set pieces in almost no time. "

 

[Eumenides]

Well, the translation of the trilogy I directed was divided into acts....

 

[Dillinger]

Perhaps its all about the translation.

I would have loved to see that - the play you directed. *smile*

 

[Eumenides]

Nora and I think it would have been better to do it a la:

Beverly Hillbilly's meet Aeschylus.

But the hayseed was hard to come by...


It was a good production. I am almost done with Noises off Right now...

 

[Dillinger]

Just found a strange online version that seems to have 6 Episodes and 5 Chorals...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0085,007&query=1

They've got it in English AND in Greek!!!

prôton men euchêi têide presbeuô theôn
tên prôtomantin Gaian: ek de tês Themin+,
hê dê to mêtros deutera tod' hezeto
manteion+, hôs logos tis: en de tôi tritôi

 

[Eumenides]

Cool.

 

[Eumenides]

Just found a strange online version that seems to have 6 Episodes and 5 Chorals...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0085,007&query=1

They've got it in English AND in Greek!!!

prôton men euchêi têide presbeuô theôn
tên prôtomantin Gaian: ek de tês Themin+,
hê dê to mêtros deutera tod' hezeto
manteion+, hôs logos tis: en de tôi tritôi

It's all greek to me!

LMAO

That's two in one night!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My queendom is back!

Nora, looky!

 

[Dillinger]

Nora and I think it would have been better to do it a la:

Beverly Hillbilly's meet Aeschylus.

But the hayseed was hard to come by...


It was a good production. I am almost done with Noises off Right now...

Now that would have been quite interesting...

This is the story of a man named Orestes
A poor son of Agamemnon
Barely kept his disfunctional family in bed
Then one day while shooting at Clytaemestra and Aegisthus
Up through the ground come the bubblin' Furies.
Matricide that is...
Greek drama...

 

[Nora]

It's all greek to me!

LMAO

That's two in one night!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My queendom is back!

Nora, looky!

I'm proud of you, darling. Your status as Princess of Pungent Puns is safe.

Now I believe you were stripping, dear. You've got folk waiting for you with cameras and cash. You wouldn't want to disappoint them, would you?

 

[Eumenides]

I'm proud of you, darling. Your status as Princess of Pungent Puns is safe.

Now I believe you were stripping, dear. You've got folk waiting for you with cameras and cash. You wouldn't want to disappoint them, would you?

Yes Ma'am!!!!!!!!!!



That was Cute, Dill