Theatre: Slaughter in the next room MISTER HERACLES WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE LEEDS

The Independent - London | February 28, 2001| | Copyright

IT'S EVERYONE'S dread - that your mind will suddenly short- circuit and that when you come round from this aberration, you will find that you have destroyed everything you loved. Such was the fate of the semi- divine Heracles: driven mad by the agents of the jealous Hera, he slaughtered his wife and sons. When Euripides came to compose a dramatic version of this story, he made a crucial change. In earlier accounts of the myth, Heracles is sent away on the famous Labours in order to expiate his appalling crime. Euripides acutely reverses that sequence. Ironically, it's on his return from ...

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