The Village Voice, October 10th, 2007
medEia
By Dood Paard
P.S. 122 (closed)
Caravaggio Chiaroscuro
By Gian Marco Lo Forte
La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
212-475-7710
Farewell, Dionysus!
Two plays display the evolution of the avant-garde
The tumultuous 1960s, with its bacchanals and revolutions, adopted Euripides' Bacchae as its main myth. In iconic stagings like the Performance Group's Dionysus in '69 or the Living Theatre's Paradise Now, theater unleashed the Dionysian spirit of that ancient play, celebrating intoxication, fleshly pleasures, and social liberation. The 21st century, on the other hand, has terror and destru...
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