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Source: T. Charles Erickson When did Classic Stage Company get
into the bloated, mindboggling miniseries business? With "The
Age of Iron," it's taken the Trojan War, blanded up the famous
parts, glossed over the interesting bits, and dressed it all
with a desperate comic energy that raises the question: Why? The
whole thing feels like a hideous sweeps-week stunt, a
repudiation of all things classic, not to mention all things
stage. It's the sort of calamity that you'd expect to have a
dozen writers and two dozen producers, but in this case just one
man stands at the helm: adapter-director Brian Kulick.  To be
fair to Kulick, he does draw on two sources—Thomas Heywood's
"Iron Age" and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"—but to be
fair to everyone else, I must yet again ask, why? In several
pages of production notes, Kulick waxes on (and on) about how
the plays unlock or enrich each other.