Powerful characters propel clever literary detective story
Kate Taylor | Globe and Mail
Eternal Hydra: Crow’s Theatre production is a Stoppard-like display of intellectual drama
They said the author was dead, so Anton Piatigorsky decided to investigate. The results are Eternal Hydra , a provocative literary detective story that began life as a one-act play commissioned by the Stratford Festival and unveiled in 2002. Since then Piatigorksy and director Chris Abraham have worked the play up to two acts, a version they first workshopped in 2007. This spring, Crow’s Theatre is finally offering a full production of the piece, first at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto and then at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa. The mills of Canadian theatre grind slowly but, in the case of this clever play, they do grind exceedingly fine.
Full review in the Arts section of the Globe and Mail: Powerful characters propel clever literary detective story
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