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Date: April 18, 1997
An Afternoon's Odyssey
A reading of Robert Fagles' new translation of Homer's The Odyssey, featuring Robert Fagles, Jason Robards, and Kathryn Walker
Princeton, N.J.--Actors Jason Robards and Kathryn Walker will be joined by Professor Robert Fagles in a special event sponsored by the Public Lectures Committee of Princeton University: a reading from Prof. Fagles' new translation of Homer's The Odyssey on Thursday, May 1, at 4:00 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the recipient of a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His acclaimed verse translations include Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus' Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award in 1977) and Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by the Academy of American Poets, an award from the Translation Center of Columbia University, and the New Jersey Humanities Book Award). His translation of The Odyssey, with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox, was recently published by Viking Penguin.
Jason Robards made his Broadway debut in D'Oyly Carte's The Mikado in 1947 but is best known for his leading roles in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, most notably as Hickey in a now legendary production of The Iceman Cometh at the Circle in the Square (1956) and as James Tyrone in the first American production of Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956). He also starred as Quentin in Arthur Miller's After the Fall (1964) and in the 1988 O'Neill revivals of Long Day's Journey and Ah, Wilderness! with Colleen Dewhurst. His many film credits include All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977), for both of which he won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.
Kathryn Walker is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and a Broadway and regional theater veteran; her credits include Noel Coward's Private Lives with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Neil Simon's The Good Doctor and Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet with Jason Robards. She also appeared in the films Slapshot, Rich Kids and Neighbors, and her many credits for television include The Adams Chronicles, for which she won an Emmy Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of Abigail Adams. Walker is also an accomplished photographer; her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center.