Phedre Thoughts Comparison

Chuch Graham has a review of Phedre on TucsonStage/Let The Show Begin. He saw it at the Loft of Sunday. My own thoughts on Phedre are below in my previous post. Just for fun, I've a assembled a few quotes for comparison. I love Chuck's use of language in his descriptions.
Enjoy.

You just don’t see theater like this anymore, at least not in the good ol’ USA.
-Chuck
I didn't think this kind of acting existed anymore. I didn't think this type of understanding, interpretation and execution of plays existed anymore
-David

Appreciating this kind of performance does require a different sensibility, a willingness to follow every actor over the top and straight down into dark twists of writhing personalities conveyed in pure animalistic frenzy.
-Chuck
Let me put that in perspective. I can endure, even enjoy at times, a little affectation and melodramatic ranting. This damn near wore me down though.
-David

“Phaedra” projects a torque-jawed realm of drama powered by such a muscular mental connection the visceral response is immediate.
-Chuck
It was a weird one-hundred percent falsely wrought presentation of a brilliant play.
-David

These acting talents are so much larger than life – their dialogue the brute force equivalent of broad swords and sabers hacking and slashing at each other. Lusty appetites on a mythic scale.
-Chuck
Cliche, Over-Acting and Obvious Wailing and Intoning of False Passions - Thy name is this production.
-David

Stripped of subtlety, rushing headlong into vein-popping expressions of conflict, the psychology of revenge feels cut from bulky blocks of granite compulsively banging away.
-Chuck
It was like a bunch of freaks suffering uncontrollably at the hands of the gods, fate.
-David

While the plot is never the point but more of an excuse for the characters to bludgeon each other with words, “Phaedra” does remind us “when passion boils, reason evaporates.”
-Chuck
Those traits that made/make the Greek Dramatists (and Racine in this case too) so interesting, things like complexity, reasoning, curiosity, were nowhere to be found in this production.
-David

Blood will be spilled before this is over.
-Chuck
Give a guy his beer drinking spear throwing moments!
-David