STAGE REVIEW: Modernized Aeschylus tragedy still rings true

University Wire | September 16, 2004| | Copyright

Elaine Kovacs
University Wire
09-16-2004
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- A young ruler, attempting to live up to his father's past legacy, sends an army into a foreign nation to reclaim the land as his nation's own. Sadly it ends in a horrifyingly bloody battle. And all that is left of the leader's desires to recover glory is merely an army and a nation torn apart. Does this at all sound familiar? Indeed, how history repeats itself.

"The Persians," originally written by Aeschylus almost 2,500 years ago, has been adapted by Ellen McLaughlin to unveil the timelessness of its ...

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