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...psychological battlefield: Randy Danson, in the title role, effectively relays the wrenching inner turmoil of her character, while Benjamin Evett instills Hypolytus with a sense of naivete and youthful nerve. Theseus--Jonathan Epstein--delivers a charged performance as well, with his towering stature and the gruff voice of an Athenian warrior. The production appears to intentionally spark audience laughter in the most wrenching scenes. At times, the play pounds on with a tragic death occurring every 30 seconds and the pathetically ragged messenger scurrying on and off stage, uttering in melodramatic rasp, "Master, he/she's dead...
Direct democracy, Athenian style, revives itself in Massachusetts politics every election season...
Inspired by Athenian ruins, the stately arches and ivy covered walls of the Harvard Stadium call to mind the noble Greek virtues of balance and order...
Levitin's historical comparisons of contemporary Israel to ancient Sparta and Athens was especially remarkable, simply because they ring so true. Like the ancient Athenian democracy, Israel is an armed citizen-state that must remain continually wary of its neighbors. And while we sitting comfortably here in the West might see an Israel at peace with Egypt and Jordan, our "reality" may well turn out to be an illusion. If either of these countries were to ever fall to the forces of Islamic-fundamentalism, the "situation on the ground" would be dramatically transformed. Israel would most certainly find itself...
Henderson even drew parallels between some of the themes covered in Aristophanes' plays and the nation's contemporary political drama, nothing that the playwright accused the Athenian leader, Pericles, of irresponsible sexual behavior in his play Archarians...