‘Hurricane Diane’ turns an updated Greek god loose on New Jersey housewives at Hartford Stage

‘Hurricane Diane’ turns an updated Greek god loose on New Jersey housewives at Hartford Stage

In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the god who oversees vegetables and fruit, particularly the making of wine from grapes, and thus is also connected to ecstatic partying. Dionsysus is also the god of theater. In Madeleine George’s play “Hurricane Diane,” running at Hartford Stage June 5-29, Dionysus becomes Diane, a landscaping expert with an environmentalist streak seeking to change the destiny of humankind by wreaking a little havoc in New Jerse…