“Now I Know Love”: Hallie Flanagan and Euripides’ Hippolytus

This article chronicles Hallie Flanagan’s 1931 production of Euripides’ Hippolytus at the Vassar Experimental Theatre, situating the production within the history of Greek tragic performances in the United States as well as in the context of Flanagan’s later career. Flanagan strove to present a classical play in an experimental form, deviating from the historical trends of ancient Greek theatrical presentation in the early twentieth-century United States. Her artistic choices with the Hippolytus stand as a particularly striking example of her theatrical philosophies and practices that would be projected across the country upon her appointment as director of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Theatre Project in 1935.