How lucky was I this Friday the 13th? Much more so than Sophocles’ ANTIGONE. Just as she has for centuries, ANTIGONE is working her way through another version of a doomed demise in David Rush's ...
A lot of people die during Sophocles’ Antigone. The death of Oedipus puts his sons Eteocles and Polynices on the throne, their deaths spark their titular sister to fight for the latter’s right to be ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The few productions of Greek tragedy seen in Melbourne over the past decade were all, despite their faults, more faithful to the ...
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Canada's Oscar submission is an intelligent, moving reworking of Sophocles' tragedy, electrified by a breakout turn from star Nahéma Ricci. The very idea of a modern reworking of a classical text ...
In 2017, I saw the young Chicago actress Aeriel Williams in “Black Pearl” at the Black Ensemble Theatre, a show about Josephine Baker. I remember thinking she was the kind of phenomenal new ...
Greek tragedy’s King Creon is the despot who scorns public opinion and wants simply to look resolute. He will not, unlike some of today’s politicians, quickly countenance thoughts of a U-turn. He duly ...
Cedar Crest College celebrates its past next week by reviving a 65-year-old tradition. In 1925 the college staged its first Greek drama, Sophocles’ “Antigone.” “That first production was done on the ...
When I was a theater student, I was fascinated by stories of the Greek tragedies in their earliest performances — multi-day outdoor festivals, attended by tens of thousands, for whom the event was as ...
O gods! Let us take measure of the many vagaries of performing Greek drama outdoors in Prospect Park in the nude; let us dare to glance behind the behinds. For Torn Out Theatre’s recent nude ...
'Antigone,' the winner of best Canadian feature honors at the Toronto International Film Festival and the country's submission for consideration in the international feature film Oscar category, ...