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The Birds
Walter Kerr from Aristophanes Price: $8.25
“The intention,” Walter Kerr writes, “has been to make the
play sound as it might have sounded to an average Athenian
sitting in a popular comic theatre”
As Kerr, describes the work: The Birds (414 B.C.) was Aristophanes’ first Utopian play
In this instance, he has his ‘comedy team’ leave Athens, fed up with the frauds and bores of that society, in an effort to found a better society among the birds
To do so, they must first locate Epops, King of the Birds, who was once a man like themselves and who might be expected to know both sides of the problem
How they find him and what they persuade him to do is the body of the play
The first act concerns the founding of Cloud Cuckooland and its triumph over all earthly quacks. The second concerns its triumph over the polytheistic absurdities to which Athenian religion had been reduced
Flexible casting
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