Big Love Fifty brides flee their fifty

Big Love Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy in this modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. And, in this villa on the Italian coast, the fifty grooms catch up with the brides, and mayhem ensues: the grooms arriving by helicopter in their flight suits, women throwing themselves over and over again to the ground, pop songs and romantic dances, and, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms-and one bride falls in love. About the same odds as today. “The three plays come from my life with Laurie Williams, who is an actress with whom I lived for the past five years. So all these thoughts, relationships and strange and beautiful and painful things are from the life we had together. I think she was my first love in life, in spite of my advanced age when I fell in love with her, which was 57. She was certainly my true love. It happened suddenly, in a millisecond. And it ended just as suddenly about six months ago. I think the plays have in them the reasons we found each other and the reasons we broke apart.”