On the London Stage - A Seductive Twist on a Classic Tale

NYTimes.com: "There’s genuine pleasure to be had when a playwright you think you know takes you somewhere else — whether you’re talking Eugene O’Neill, that avatar of domestic despair and gloom, penning the comedy “Ah, Wilderness!,” or Shakespeare launching his most knockabout work, “The Comedy of Errors,” with an extended consideration of discord and death. Now along comes Shakespeare’s Globe with a buoyant production of what would appear to be a theatrical oxymoron: a Euripides play, “Helen,” that actually has a happy ending. What would the Gods make of that? Mere mortals have until Aug. 23 to decide for themselves."