Sometimes, the magic’s in the mistakes. At one point during the Sept. 23 showing of Euripides’ “Orestes,” two actors found themselves unable to perform a necessary shoe removal, and the action stalled ...
Western culture looks to ancient Greece as the birthplace of democracy, as well as the soil in which our notions of tragedy first took root. So though Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum frequently ...
Anyone who’s attended productions of Marianne McDonald’s Greekplay adaptations at San Diego’s The Theatre Inc. knows thatMcDonald —- who has taught the classics at UC San Diego for twodecades —- is ...
Sartre achieves in The Flies, as he does in most of his plays, the geometric clarity which his nondramatic writing lacks. The structure he imparts to the Orestes myth is philosophic and monumental; ...
The article in the title is telling: This is not the Oresteia, the Aeschylus trilogy of plays that detail domino murders in the House of Atreus, a family "glued to ruin." Instead, translator Anne ...
Alex Wilgus surprises me with his flattering comparison of Your Working Boy to Orestes Brownson. Turns out it’s really a short essay in praise of the blogger as intellectual work-in-progress. Excerpt: ...
It makes sense that, in trying to birth a new online form of theatre during this pandemic, artists might look back at those who prototyped the old IRL form of theatre: the ancient Greeks. Orestes, a ...
Orestes Brownson is not a well-known name, even among American Catholics. But he should be. As the critic Russell Kirk has written, over his long life Brownson (1803-1876) knew practically everyone ...
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