The Village Voice, September 27th, 2006
Defeats of Strength
A pair of tragic heroes, who dare all and get smashed by destiny
Richard II
By William Shakespeare
Classic Stage Company
136 East 13th Street
212-677-4210
The Persians
By Aeschylus
City Center
131 West 55th Street
(Closed)
Plays about defeat have a reputation for discomfiting audiences; they tend not to get produced all that much except when, as now, a regime shows signs of cracking under the weight of its own arrogance and overextended powers. Henry James's famous quip, to the effect that a failure was always something that a success somehow ineffably wasn't, m...
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