
Christine Tohme
1 THE BIRDS (ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE, ATHENS, SEPTEMBER 17–23; DIRECTED BY NIKOS KARATHANOS) Aristophanes’s simple story about man’s desire to fly, to migrate to new worlds, is enduringly witty and perverse. Karathanos’s production gave poetic urgency to the play’s theme of fluidity among the categories of man, animal, and god, embracing our inherent need to dream and offering hope for decadence.
2 FC BERGMAN, HET LAND NOD (THE LAND OF NOD; ZÜRCHER THEATER SPEKTAKEL, ZURICH, AUGUST 18–21) The seta stripped-down replica of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp’s Rubens room, with a facsimile of