This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes in a Series.
The theatre is based on a 5th-century BC Athenian theatre.
The theatrical style portrayed in this episode appears to be heavily inspired by Ancient Greek drama.
Kellie Waymire (Lanya) later played the recurring Crewman Elizabeth Cutler in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) until Waymire's untimely death of cardiac arrhythmia.
The masks the actors use are really made to look like their characters. For instance, you can make out Seven's cranial implant.