SL10366: “Bash”: Mormonizing Euripides

Neil LaBute is known for writing plays and films tracing the questionable actions of ethically dubious characters in shocking narratives. However, for his trilogy bash, he relied on stories written centuries earlier by the dramatist Euripides. LaBute updated the stories, placing them in roughly contemporary time and a Mormon setting. This paper explores the ways in which the Mormon context deepens the impact of these plays and helps keep the tone of the ancient Greek works applicable to the modern world.