Greek & Roman Theatres |
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Freya Stark on
Aspendos and
Teremessos:
The theatre
stands on flat ground, like a box from which the lid has been lifted. Proud,
limited and magnificent, there is a prison air about it - a difference as of
death and life that one feels between the Roman and the Greek. No landscape
stretches here beyond a low and unobtrusive stage, for the easy coming and going
of the gods. Human experience, that moved with freedom and mystery, is here
walled-in with balconies and columns; its pure transparency, the far horizon
window, is lost. In the Greek theatre, with its simple three-doored stage and chorus undertone of sorrow, the drama of life could penetrate, without any barrier between them, the surround vastness of the dark. I have listened to the Hippolytus of Euripides in Epidaurus where the words of Artemis and Aphrodite with the mountain pines and the sunset behind them, become a limpid fear - a play no longer, but nature and all that ever has been, anguish and waste of days, speaking to men. |
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