The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will channel the smoke of their own burning flesh makes Akropolis the most powerful .
A male playgoer is bound to approach a show like this with the trepidation of a little boy about to down a spoonful of cod-liver oil.
And, best of all, his operas were in English and the plain playgoer could understand every word.