Mount Olympus: the 24-hour theatrical orgy that outdoes Dionysus
Actors who nap on stage, ecstatic dances, ravishing arias, lovers swamped in sand … Jan Fabre's epic in a Belgrade conference centre is an endurance testThe centrepiece of this year's Belgrade international theatre festival was a 24-hour performance of Jan Fabre's majestic, exhausting and exhilarating Mount Olympus: To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy. A hallucinatory vision of Homeric themes and characters, it presente…