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Medea in mid-air: how Syracuse's Greek theatre keeps the classics alive by Michael Billington

Playing in the vast ancient amphitheatre, imaginative new productions of Euripides and Aeschylus find fresh nuance even in this huge space How best to stage the great Greek classics? The fashion in Britain is for intimacy. But there are other alternatives, as I found on a visit to the ancient Greek theatre in Sicily's Syracuse where everything is on a massive scale. The auditorium, carved out of a hillside, seats 5,0…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM on May 16, 2023

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