The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National Theater of Greece was a joy The recent and sadly brief visit of Peter Stein’s wonderful Electra with the National ...

“Critics are left to come to . . . various conclusions, including the conclusion that there is no conclusion,” wrote Richmond Lattimore in his and David Grene’s University of Chicago edition of ...

When producer/artistic director Jim Svendsen was considering possibilities for this year's Classical Greek Theatre Festival production, he faced a dilemma. One of the plays he wanted to do was ...

Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces that invaded Troy, survived the 10 years of the Trojan War, only to come home and be murdered by his wife and her lover. An ironic death that begat a cycle of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies publishes world-wide research in the whole range of Classical Studies. Recent ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Sophocles' "Electra" presents literature's ultimate parent-child showdown. For ...

This city of Argos is a moody and spooky place. Its central plaza is like a ruined city streetcorner you don’t want to be around after dark. And who is that babbling beggar woman in the shadows, ...

Mourning ill-becomes Electra in the eccentric, stylized, bag-lady interpretation of General Agamemnon’s too-loving daughter by Zoe Wanamaker. As directed by David Leveaux, a singularly mismatched cast ...

A small cast and crew of students are bringing Sophocles’ “Electra” to the Adams Pool Theatre on April 12 and to theaters around the world this summer. Director Isaiah O. Michalski ’21 and producer ...

In a twentieth century revival of classicism Miss Margaret Anglin will appear in Sophocles' well known play. "Electra" in atmosphere much like that which characterized Sophocles' productions during ...

At best, it’s a vague insight into the dramatist’s furious, uncompromising antihero who’s “isolated” from conventional high society (represented here by Vogue fashionistas glued to cellphones, rather ...