You, the jury: plays are giving power to the people
A new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn't go nearly far enoughDrama invites judgment. One of the oldest plays in the western canon, The Oresteia, ends with Athenian jurors deciding whether Orestes should be condemned for matricide. Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror, a courtroom drama getting its British premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith, ends with…