Books

January, 1970

The stage is a hexagonal stump of a platform, surrounded on three sides by variously colored benches for spectators; in the intervening space--which becomes a sylvan, aerial or undersea setting at the flick of a light switch--the gods of antiquity indulge in their favorite pastimes: Jove deflowers Io, who is transformed into a heifer by jealous Juno and guarded by Argus of the thousand eyes; Vulcan catches Mars making it with his wife, Venus, whom he has neglected in order to provide the war-god...