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...Walker herself performed as Agave in the early 70s, at the same Agassiz performance space, what she calls "the best little theater in Boston...
...Williams translation used by Walker combines a nuanced style, reflective of the original Greek, with a highly developed sensitivity to what modern lyric poetry can do. Consider the following excerpt from one of the odes, described in Martha Nussbaum's preface to the translation as "a mixture of beauty and horror...
...doomed and the Bacchant chorus is praising the sweetness of vengeance. The scene is creepier than mere Halloween fantasy. The immediacy of Williams' language, its claim on the play's disturbing juxtaposition of beauty and inclemency (the chorus as, perhaps, "Les Belles Dames Sans Merci"?) must be what attracted Walker, Harper and the rest of the staff...
Though there has recently been a great growth in interest in the Classics (one that Walker fostered on campus last spring, by participating in the reading from Robert Fagles' new Odyssey that included Fagles and Jason Robards), it is still easy to be skeptical about the relevance of Greek tragedy, especially a very archaizing and formal one, to modern life, and thus to question the value of any such production, no matter how many risks it takes. But the remedy for the doubt is available to anyone willing to admit how exquisitely the work of Euripides, especially The Bacchae, frames...
These are obviously worth consideration, and the current production phrases them as carefully and boldly as they deserve. Kathryn Walker and her talented colleagues have conceived an innovative approach that the drama can sustain, fully in keeping with the provocative words from its final chorus: "Many forms/are there/of the divine...