Somewhere there are rules for what theatre is supposed to do: it should entertain, it should instruct, it should provoke. To say that Annie Dorsen's "Prometheus Firebringer" checks all the boxes is an understatement of what she has done here. It is a brilliant reactionary, and yes, even cautionary, piece that takes a 2,500-year- old play that doesn't really exist anymore (what is left of it is the title and a fragmen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:26PM on September 22, 2023