The Playwrights' Arena production makes Helen a fugitive from Hollywood who has been sullied by the tabloids but still seeking refuge at the tomb of Proteus.Just a few years after writing his antiwar masterpiece, "The Trojan Women," Euripides was even more despondent about the reckless imperialist course of Athenian foreign policy. His response wasn't a louder shriek of lament but a rollicking romantic melodrama &mda…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:14PM on September 7, 2012