The Oresteia starts with a child sacrifice " and then gets darker. But it managed to cheer me up even more than the tremendously funny Rules for LivingDoes theatre, as the Greeks believed, help you achieve catharsis? Do comic dramas lift the spirits and tragedies depress them? Last month, while feeling pretty depressed, I had theatre tickets for a hit comedy and a classic tragedy within a 24-hour period. Having rejec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PM on July 2, 2015