The Persians (2nd Year)

By Aeschylus

A liturgical performance, a memorial prayer in which the actor-mystic-priest-time-traveler embodies the figures of Aeschylus's play in a crypt beside Darius's tomb. The crypt becomes a "holy sepulcher" and a place of relics for a Madonna-like Atossa and a half-angel forerunner who leads us through a rite of the Persians' suffering, exploring the fall and the mourning for what the Persians once were, reflecting on how we, the defeated, always let it happen to ourselves.