What is it about stories from the ancient world that attracts contemporary dramatists?
One person well-placed to address that question is 37-year-old Japanese theater director Kunio Sugihara, whose production of the 10-hour trilogy, ¡°Kunio 15 The Greeks¡± ¡ª divided into three plays subtitled ¡°The War,¡± ¡°The Murders¡± and ¡°The Gods¡± ¡ª opens Nov. 21 at Kanagawa Arts Theatre in Yokohama.
When it premiered in London in 1980 as a Royal Shakespeare Company production written and directed by the late English theater icon John Barton, ¡°The Greeks¡± was hailed for its clear dialogue translated from works by Homer and the later classical Athenian tragedians Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles by Barton¡¯s Czech American collaborator, the playwright Kenneth Cavander.
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