The esteemed Brit actress Dame Maggie Smith is no more. So brilliantly unforgettable and self-effacingly comedic her hilarious Jocasta from 1986/87 Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in Simon Callow's The Infernal Machine [Cocteau], still lingers in my mind:
JOCASTA. And what is the use of your third eye, I should like to
know? Have you found the Sphinx? Have you found the
Murderers of Laius? Have you calmed the people? Guards are
stationed at my door and I am left with things that hate me, that
want my death!
