Contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedies often feel heavy-handed or pretentious. Not so with Eric Winick's Rearviewmirror, a modern-day riff on Euripides' The Bacchae. The playwright uses just the right amount of his source material, while infusing the play with pop cultural referents and creating engaging characters to fit the story he wants to tell -- all brought to vivid life by a trio of outstanding actors under the expert direction of Carl Forsman.

The play is structured as three intersecting monologues. Penn (Mark Alhadeff), an aspiring screenwriter, grew up as a Reform Jew and views actual religious practice and beliefs with some skepticism. Yet he has a fetish for Orthodox Jewis[...]