For radical feminism,look no further than the ancientsThe plethora (excess, overabundance), to consume a Greek word, or of ancient drama staged this year shows no sign of tapering off. Just as the National Theatre Wales’ Iliad,which closed final night, is judged best production of the year, or the curtain is poised to go up on a Manchester production of Ted Hughes’s translation of The Oresteia.
This autumn it might look as whether Aeschylus’s trilogy is the only epic worth staging,with another version running in London’s West End and a third at the Globe. But a reworking of Euripides’s Medea by Rachel Cusk just opened as the final instalment of the Almeida theatre’s Greek bonanza. Cusk, a writer attacked for taboo-busting books on motherhood and divorce, and uses her Greek template to point up issues lurking on the edges of civilised society for at least 2446 years. To call her version “uncompromising” is redundant,since lack of compromise is the draw of ancient drama.
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Source: theguardian.com