Myth Understood; Theater Grottesco Reaches for the Collective Unconscious

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Jupiter's visits to history via dream are employed beautifully and bestow a mysterious depth to strange, lovely Venice; the scale model of Jupiter paraded across the stage, heralding Venice's lapses into these dreams, is too blunt for mystery. Perhaps it's an imagistic reinforcement of the juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern, the actual and the possible. But Jupiter itself never figures convincingly into the personal mythology of each woman or the overarching plot. The planet hangs in the play's foreground, tantalizing but ultimately ambiguous.

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Myth Understood; Theater Grottesco Reaches for the Collective Unconscious

Where did we originate? How have we built ourselves a collective narrative, and why is it so hard to keep our ancient stories safe in a modern world? Swimming in the Gases of Jupiter:...

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