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The devil made them do it: God and Satan square off on scientific grounds in Dell'Arte's 21st-century Paradise Lost. (theater review)

American Theatre,  October, 2002  by Butler, Wendy

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> ONE MARK OF GREAT POETRY IS ITS ability to transcend the time in which it was written. That goes double for English poet John Milton's Paradise Lost, as reen-visioned by the Dell'Arte Company of Blue Lake, Calif. In their ambitious new stage adaptation of the 17th-century God-versus-Satan epic, retitled Paradise Lost: The Clone of God, the physical-theatre specialists of Dell'Arte have pulled Milton's vastly influential, 10,549-line poem out of time, added contemporary science and technology to it and come up with a 21st-century dilemma: Why are we in the dirt staring up at heaven? ...

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