Body of Work

APHRODITE GETS LOOSE: PLAN-B'S HIPPOLYTUS
BRINGS OUT THE FUN IN FUNDAMENTALISM
(excerpt)
July 9, 1998, Scott C. Morgan, City Weekly

"Wonderful" would also be the word audiences could use to describe the majority of Plan-B Theatre Company's Hippolytus. Plan-B has fashioned another theatrical experience that eschews traditional realism in favor of unconventional staging. And as usual, Plan-B has found a way to honor the text while making the play topical for today.

Throughout Hippolytus,...ingenious little bits and pieces...are sprinkled in by director Cory Thorell to make Euripides' examination of fundamentalism and extremism through a classically dysfunctional Greek family not too distant from the here and now.

Plan-B's Hippolytus boasts a powerhouse cast that makes most of Thorell's directing choices hit their target. At the successful core is a trio of leading actors who rotate through the play's major eight characters.

Plan-B's Hippolytus continues to do what Plan-B does best: tell a powerful story in a way that expands the boundaries of Salt Lake City's theatrical landscape.