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Article: Ancient Greek play for today.(Theater Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2005
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Byline: FIONA MOUNTFORD
The Suppliants BAC, SW11 Fiona Mountford THEATRE ALTHOUGH The Suppliants was written in fifth-century BC Greece, its focus on asylum, clashes between religions and talk of "a new type of war" has profound resonance in 2005 London. This rare production of the first piece by Aeschylus, the earliest Greek dramatist, highlights the work's striking modernity.
The cleverest move by young director Sam Leifer is to pluck the characters from the classical past and establish them as the sort of nervy, emotional creatures more familiar to today's audiences.
The fluidity of the original text, written when the structure of Greek ...