For some reason over the past week or so there has been a spate of reviewish sorts of things of plays etc. with a Classical focus … here are the links in no particular order:
- Pencil This In (Gothamist on The Judgment of Paris; includes a link to a video preview)
- Euripides’ ‘Medea’ reborn at Birdcage, but falls short of accomplishment (Chico Enterprise Record)
- Trojan Source Drama of war’s aftermath modernizes ancient Greek classic (Las Vegas Review Journal on Trojan Women 2.0)
- Kick-start this cracking idea (Bexley Times on the Bacchae)
- An eloquent dance to the death (Financial Times … the same production)
- In Blood: The Bacchae (The Stage … definitely the same production as the previous)
- In Blood: The Bacchae (Guardian … ditto)
- Finding sympathy for McKenna’s murdering Medea (Globe and Mail)
- The timeless allure of sad, bad and mad (Globe and Mail with another review of the same production?)
- McKenna rises above tragedy (The Star weighs in too)
- Mirvish Presents ‘Medea’ for a Limited Run at Canon (as does Broadway World)
- Medea: A Bliss For Cuban Theater (Cuba News)
- Review: ‘You, Nero’ at South Coast Repertory (LA Times)
… and we’ll close from a review in Variety of a new production of Rich and Famous, which includes a character described thusly:
There’s the randy, famous older composer (Stephen DeRosa, resourcefully amusing as a harsh caricature of Leonard Bernstein) who’s agreed to write music for Bing’s forced Greek-mythic marriage of “Odyssey” and “Iliad” entitled “The Odiad.”
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