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DAVID GORDON'S ARISTOPHANES IN BIRDONIA
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20060118
Author:Jowitt, Deborah
DAVID GORDON'S ARISTOPHANES IN BIRDONIA
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If the new country turns out to be just like the old, you'd be better off staying where you are
A stellar playwright of the Old Comedy like Aristophanes could skewer pretty much whatever bothered him about politics, morals, and religion in fifth-century-B.C. Athens. In 21st-century America, David Gordon turns Aristophanes' The Birds into a flight of barbs aimed at issues like pollution, corruption, separation of church and state, voter apathy, and ...
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