"Victory Gardens Theater did not simply present a world premiere of a new play on Thursday night.
And although at first its Caribbean island setting seems far from the ancient Greece as a globe will permit, it turns out to.
The play is called PECONG.
And it did so with such stunning and completely realized theatricality that it seemed as if all the talent involved in the project has suddenly ripened and burst apart.
It conjured a new life for a myth that is more than 2,000 years old. "Victory Gardens Theater did not simply present a world premiere of a new play on Thursday night