Over 2500 years ago, Aristophanes put “living” contemporary power-brokers into his comic masterpieces and then skewered them with their own foibles. The results were scandalous and provocative. Then the power-brokers forbade the practice, for obvious reasons; the practice has remained forbidden for thousands of years, particularly as the Roman Empire and its descendants spread their […] The post …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PM on March 20, 2015