For an audience who doesn't know very much about Greek drama, it is startlingly modern. That's why I think it's brilliant. He's managed to pare down the language, yet push up the emotional quotient. It's the simplicity of it. The simpler the better, I think.
Simplicity is more powerful.
You see that in painting, you see that in wonderful poetry, you see that in great writing. The sparsity is much more powerful than all that other mess. Yes, and I thought it also was very well done. Having said that, I must tell you there are some classics scholars who fault the adaptation for not being literal enough. I've received a few letters from people who don't like it.