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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In her enthralling 2012 adaptation of the Medea story for Belvoir, director Anne-Louise Sarks examined an ancient Greek tragedy from the ...
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 ...
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; ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents Orestes 2.0 by Charles L ...
As Greek tragedies go, “Orestes” stands apart from the norm thanks to its quirky blend of misery and mirth, and its unexpected ending at the unseen hands of Apollo. With this new adaptation, ...
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 ...