Ché Walker's new play The Lightning Child is a contemporary response to Euripides's The Bacchae. You've got to be brave to essentially translate an Ancient Greek play into everyday language, but Walker makes expletives poetic, and by interspersing Euripides' tale with modern tragedies of Dionysian excess, identifies affinities with this nearly 2,500 year-old story. Euripides's play […]The post Review: The L…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:18AM on September 20, 2013