The Independent - London, August 26th, 1994
THE LIGHTS went down, a fiery torch flickered high above the cavernous floor, a chorus began to recite, and a dozen great-coated elders chanting in monk-like fashion took their place at a long table. Glancing to my right, I could just glimpse a sign saying "Skates for Hire".
The Edinburgh Festival yesterday unveiled a new art form, the theatre of endurance, staging a seven-hour 40-minute trilogy of Greek tragedies, Oresteia by Aeschylus.
That in itself would have separated the wheat from the chaff of theatre-goers. But in the search for true audience stamina with the added sense of the surre...
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