...Robert Brustein Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Oedipus Nix: A Mythical Tragedy Robert Brustein...

...Piotr Tomaszuk © 2005 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2005 King Oedipus, directed by Piotr Tomaszuk, 2004. Photo: Newsweek polska Holy Sins Piotr Tomaszuk, Interviewed by Tom Sellar In October 2004, I spoke with Piotr Tomaszuk late one evening after...

... for at least getting opening a large volume, “is from the book of common subject matter of Gospel music Orton right in his own time - no small Oedipus.” A few members of the audience tended to focus on themes of suffering and achievement in the first critical book about chuckled in recognition...

...Honor Moore The Acted Word and John 'Gielgud (Oedipus) and Irene Worth the Gilded Cube (Jocastal. by Honor Moore Oedipus by Seneca The sacrifice which Tiresias and Manto Adapted by Ted...

...Craig Latrell Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Theater in New York Something about Dirt: Seneca’s Oedipus Directed by Richard Schechner The Performance Group Craig Latrell There is a kind of bad contemporary art use of dirt in Schechner’s production of This is, I...

...Honor Moore Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1969 The Acted Word and John 'Gielgud (Oedipus) and Irene Worth the Gilded Cube (Jocada 1. by Honor Moore Oedipus by Seneca The sacrifice...

... production of Sophocles’ Oedipus at the about what we do, our role on the planet, is so American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) in spring transparently false. Yet we all still buy into it. 2004. In a note, you described the play as a “trip The majority of the population still must have towards knowledge...

... off with exiled Polyneices, newly married, an Oedipus at the same time. How much army of Argives behind him. Its first of the play's ending is genuine Euripides lines allude to the fact that Cadmus, seems impossible to determine. founder of the Theban line, came...

...Jonathan Kalb Copyright © 1999 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1999 JONATHAN KALB Oedipus AND OTHERIMPRACTICALITIES At least twenty years have passed since a roundup of a New York theater season (or half season...

... is the beginning of the play he is alone-alone meaning of this discovery? Except for against gods, against the Greek chiefs, some scholars and a few students of against history. Seemingly he should the classics, not only men of the theatre, face, like King Oedipus, his strange acts...

... standards is undramatic, and one who listened skilfully. When the plotless-in short, poor; a play in which one sang about a mountain, the other nothing, or nearly nothing, happens. would say, '1 can see the mountain be• Compared with a character like Oedipus, fore us...

..., and translation, then he and I worked on getting the English right. As what does that work involve? I see it, my principal contribution in these cases is not my com• Ball: In 1970 when I was directing Oedipus Rex. I had asked mand of foreign...

... and Oedipus’s blinding, and fol- lows it with a bloodied, moaning Oedipus, he links cognition to emotion and forces an audience to contemplate both. The pile of bodies, wheeled out from the site of killing 9 sellar...

..., this play is, of course, a further attempt, an I worked in a few more things I didn’t know association to it, as I take the great Oedipus, before. The first version was so quick, it wasn’t who preoccupied so many, be it psychoanaly- known yet what people he would pick, that’s sis, be it Greek drama...

..., and we even suggested an in- losers? OEDIPUS troduction in which the plays were referred In their luckless foray into the to not as classics but as successful pilots for scraggly, unpromising southeast REX television series that could...

... Oedipus. He from which we have fallen into being and time. With gnosis we has arrived at the crossroads of his own thinking about the theater can find our way back; one of the aims of the gnostic is “no longer and has performed the fatal act. “The masterpieces of the past are to come into being...

... with the political. She often works with the same informal company of artists including Mary McDonnell, Gerry Bamman, and Andre Gregory. She has directed Oedipus and He and She at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Glass Menagerie, Ashes...

... sabotage the production of a play." stories. Like Oedipus, for example. Or even Hamlet and King Lear. Everyone At this point, I thought it would be pru- thinks that myths are complicated, but dent to repeat our pledge, and I did so, it's not true...

... sabotage the production of a play." stories. Like Oedipus, for example. Or even Hamlet and King Lear. Everyone At this point, I thought it would be pru• thinks that myths are complicated, but dent to repeat our pledge, and I did so, it's not true...

... or a building could take hold so hard, could move so deeply, as Oedipus or Lear. I am even tempted to marshal arguments why drama in general is more intense 8 than fine art . . . Kenneth Haigh as Pirandello's Henry /V (dir. Carl Weber, 1968). This and photographs on the following pages are from...