Frogs

Sunday 28 August

On summer evenings, the courtyard of Munich's Glyptothek becomes the setting for plays on ancient themes, in this case, Aristophanes' Frogs in the original German.  Viewers sit at café tables from which they can see the Aeginetan marbles and the Tenea kouros, and the price of the ticket includes a seat cushion and a couple of plaid blankets (the weather turned cool, even cold, yesterday!) as well as a basket of bread, a bottle of water, and a couple of bottles of wine for each table.  It proved to be enough that we didn't want any further dinner.

The performance was excellent, especially considering the low budget (only 5 actors played all the roles).  We were able to follow it pretty well, even catching where Aristophanes had been slightly updated ("You frogs are so rude!  The French are right to eat you!").