Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Anne Carson
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Anne Carson
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Carson—legendary poet, classicist, heartbreaker—is known for her eviscerating ability to take myth and move it into a local hotel, without ever letting the divine implications of the story waver. Actually, Carson’s restaging only enlivens. She allows her ancient characters to stretch their legs, broaden their breath, after a long, crowded journey to the present.
It offers what we’ve come to expect from Anne Carson: non sequiturs, crisp single lines, sharp generalizations...classical references in modern dress.
...today’s most insouciant classicist.
It is a hallmark of Carson’s style to leave the juxtaposition of two cultural entities unexplained. The latest stirring verse play by Carson...takes this practice to its extreme, crafting its title (and only) character by overlaying Marilyn Monroe and Euripides’s Helen.