MYTH IN THE MAKING.(Sir Peter Hall's Tantalus)
American Theatre, November, 2000 by LILLIE, JIM
HALL BARTON AND THE DENVER CENTER DISCOVER POTENT NEW DIMENSIONS IN AN AGE-OLD EPIC
ONLY A DIRECTOR ACCUSTOMED TO perpetuating myths as often as he explodes them would dare predict that his most challenging project to date--an unwieldy, untested, ten-and-a-half-hour saga about the Trojan War, mounted on the main stage of the Denver Center Theatre Company--will be either a landmark hit or a titanic flop. Speaking to a crowd of Denver theatregoers 12 weeks into rehearsals for Tantalus, champion mythmaker Sir Peter Hall calmly declares that he wouldn't think of steering his ...
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