Butcher's production, climaxing in Tom Lehrer's We'll All Go Together, has a surprising jauntiness; and, in a large cast, Richard Leaf as the crazed general obsessed by bodily fluids, Andrew Havill as an ineffectual group captain, and Nicholas Burns as the vacillating PM stand out.
But the play's tragic force emerges strongly and the production's climax seems better suited to modern tastes than Euripides' original.
And as the production reaches its climax in a whirl of colorful Caucasian costumes and elfin outfits, set against the classic, sugar-sweet dresses for the corps de ballet, it has all the visual drama of a fashion show.
They should have been the ones crying out, "Remember me!" Instead the duty fell to Mr. Ross, who sang the phrase repeatedly, with unwavering commitment, in the production's dark climax.
By quantifying the high intensity of great call climaxes, we lend support to the hypothesis that production of great call climaxes pushes females to their physical limits.
Overall, the within-bout changes that we observed support the notion that the production of great call climaxes with a high F0 cannot be sustained over prolonged bouts.
The climax of the production was the duel with Burr.
This is not surprising, considering that complex social play represents one step of play ontogeny, which begins with spontaneous play fighting and reaches its climax with the production of sophisticated games [8].
Miss Wilson's recital of how she was transgressed by the man whom her husband was accused of slaying is one of several anti-climaxes in the production.
This frequency decrease across bouts is consistent with the notion that the production of high frequency call climaxes may be difficult to sustain.
The long-delayed Schreker revival, which began in the late nineteen-seventies, reached a climax last summer with a production at the Salzburg Festival, which is now available on DVD from EuroArts, confirming Schreker's turbulent genius.
