Big Love March 23, 2007

This startling adaptation of Aeschylus's 'The Suppliant Women' brings classical Greek tragedy bracingly into the present, weaving together a commentary on gender issues, societal pressures and commercialism. The resulting theatrical wonder is an alternately amusing and horrifying, slapstick and serious, athletic tale of a group of 50 sisters who fled from Greece to Italy to avoid forced marriage to their cousins. 'Big Love' is a unique, thought provoking and exciting evening of theatre.