Everyone in the show is wearing a mic (you have to be in that space), and Hille is excellent in the part. I had the opposite reaction to Sergius: I felt Icke was doing a lot of the Van Hove aesthetic without the rigor and attention to detail we see in Ivo's work, so the evening became a series of half-conceived gestures that were individually interesting but didn't add up to a whole. Add to that an M. Night Shyamalan twist and the fact that Icke adds in an entire Euripedes play to Aeshcylus' opus, and we have a show that plays fast and loose with the Greeks to little emotional or intellectual purpose. I do agree with Sergius about one thing: despite how much Icke deviates from the original, he still falls into the dramaturgical traps of "The Eumenides", so the whole thing turns into "Law & Order: Misogyny"in that final hour.
The main plus: it comes in about 20 minutes shorter than promised, at 3 hours 35 minutes, and it's rarely boring. |
