Word: athenas
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...designed an intergalactic Gothic set in which to develop his complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of justice degenerates into a cocktail party where under-the-table arm-twisting subverts the Athenian ideal of justice. The furies are not beyond consoling themselves with booze, narcotics and yogurt, not is Orestes above Oedipal fantasies for the mother whome he has murdered...
Still, Kelly Matthews should be commended for her dead-pan Athena, Branion for his studied assimilation of the roles of both Orestes and Apollo, and Robyn Fass for her humorous Clytemnestra. If nothing else one can be grateful to Tan, his crew and the cast for bringing Mayer's work to the public...
Throughout the play, Tan resists placing his characters in simple, archetypical roles, cultivating instead the psychological complexities and hidden motivations that inform the resolution of Aeschylus' own version. Who would have suspected that Apollo would have to use an erotic tango dance to persuade Athena to side with him on Orestes' behalf...
...semester of suffering through large impersonal courses with all the other starry-eyed fresh types, I knew something was wrong. The only gods I'd met were Bacchus and Rosovkus, patron god of the Core. Where were the exciting intellectual experiences I had dreamed of? Where was Apollo or Athena? Hell, where was Aphrodite...
...surprisingly, Odysseus is a bit incredulous when Athena (Leta Fincher) explains it all to him. For a goddess of wisdom, Fincher's Athena seems unduly bloodthirsty, even going so far as to chide Odysseus for his timid revulsion. She's supposed to be that way, says my friend the purist, but this Athena revels in the bloodshed so much that she would horrify Lady Macbeth...