... the opening line. The conceit of the event, its Christians. Christ reborn is the promise on forthright amalgam of Sophocles and evan- God‘s part that suffering has a rationally gelical Christianity, was. sustained...

... lays bare his Trecently unearthed version of revenge plot in the clipped idiom of both Sophocles’ EZektra at Classical 40s gangster and cowboy movies. Com- Stage Company [November, 19871 pro- mending the ’htor, Orestes says, “All vides us not with an esoteric ‘transla- right, Old...

... critical reading. While I was studying Sophocles for exams music produces discomfort when it exposes the heart of it became apparent that criticism I had been reading on rap cities in decline, when it cuts through the American myth music resembled some...

... of the story about the idiotic, unlucky death of Heracles, considered invincible, most likely requires no comment. 2. In Philoktetes- Variations, director Jan Ritsema staged modern adaptations of Sophocles’s tragedy by John Jesurun, Heiner Muller, and Andre Gide...

... the disasters which befalt mortals. social functions it serves. I am not seeking to impose gender politics upon the Greek drama, but rather pointing out that Sophocles, the lost Epigoni, Fr. 189...

... found awareness of self and its variety This is what I have missed in contempo• of struggles: a fight against the whimsies rary productions of Greek tragedy. The of a god who exhibited power not based pulsating life of Sophocles, Aeschylus, in morality or organic logic...

... and dimly glowing in the dark, communicates in slashing, spattering adapted from Sophocles’ Ajax by comes down the aisle towards Odysseus. signs. He uses the powerfully expressive Robert Auletta for production at the He recognizes her as Athena, his divine elaboration of American Sign Language...

... Sophocles' greatest The great chief, the great general from discovery. This could be a topic for Headquarters, is a pitiful coward. Ajax, Brecht: the tragedy of a butcher in the even in madness, is dangerous. Every• midst of swindlers and cowards; the body fears Ajax...

... to the pan-German Theatertreffen in Berlin. At the May 1979 theater festival, three out of the ten entries were versions of Sophocles' Antigone, all in Holderlin's famous translation...

.... That what Aeschylus, Sophocles or Euripides did to the Electra story is in many ways similar to what Barton and Nunn did to Henry V is true. The difference - and it is an important one - is that none of the Greeks, as far as I know, maintained that he was exploring another man's work. In each...

... happens, sport ing is that in these movie figures a real will not suffice." artist has a source for material poten• tially as effective as the Greek myths. Be• fore Sophocles wrote his plays, Oedipus was a mythical figure in the way Brando is today. In other words, the Sophocles of today...

...- for Ajax. It is important that these Sophocles’Ajax is its sensitivity ly, Ajax and the others, under all that generals, like Sophocles, have emerged to our times: its alertness, its might and military armor? Where do I as victors from a major conflict. So it aliveness, its terror. I...

... unsuccessful works. To my mind, everything good about it either comes from Sophocles or from an even greater poet than Brecht, namely, Holderlin. There are very beautiful passages, but of course they're lifted from Holderlin. What Brecht added is, in my opinion, not at all distinguished...

... European theater; again and again we talk about Brecht, whose of forty Bengali actors worked on Sophocles' Antigone, a project plays and theories are a signpost of Indian, esoecially Bengali, which was financed by the Goethe Institute in Munich. These ac• theater. The workshop members think it would...

... 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...

... often find it twice over: in Oedipus Rex as in Ibsen's Ghosts, both characters onstage and spectators out front discover that "this concerns them after all," and are thereby deeply moved. Now to discover facts is the work of the intellect, and both Sophocles and Ibsen ask the intellect to perform...

... resources, female actors need to focus, clarify and tigone Too, her dramaturgical revision of Sophocles, juxtaposes with cast off inhibitions against public expression of their already rich the Sophoclean characters and dialogue a chorus of real American emotional life...

... is the promise on forthright amalgam of Sophocles and evan- God‘s part that suffering has a rationally gelical Christianity, was. sustained to the end understandable cause and effect, that after...

... and nether regions of the soul. Aeschylus is the archpriest of the mysteries which are unveiled by the myths about Prometheus; he is the bard of heroic deeds in The Persians; he is the psychologist of the labyrinths of conscience in the Oresteia; above all he digs deep into destiny. Sophocles describes...