So, how do you come away from a lukewarm production with such positive feelings?
Meg-Taintor
Theater Review: “Bacchae” to Basics
Sometimes I wonder if Euripides saw the very texture of reality as ironic. Saw the gods in their interactions with human beings as essentially playing. A frightening idea. But at least it entails the assumption that Euripides himself was not playing. Anne Carson, in her introduction to her translation of Euripides’ “Orestes” in “An Oresteia.” […]