Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterOn to a sand-coloured floor, browned at the perimeter as if scorched by newly dead fires, strides the god Dionysus (divinely embodied by Jotham Annan, in flowing robes and leaf-spiked locks). On this simplest of settings unfolds one of the most unsettling plays of Europe's past two-and-a-half millennia. Euripides's exploration of the nature of human existence intertwines man with god…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM on November 27, 2010