Acts of War
Malpede, Karen / Messina, Michael / Shuman, Bob
As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to "Acts of War, "tragedy "arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war." The greatest of the early playwrights wrote from experience--Aeschylus and Sophocles were generals in the Athenian army, and Euripides was a combat veteran. Electronic media reports war instantly, but the stage provides an unrivaled venue for facing the horror of armed conflict on a human scale.This timely ...