In London, they find themselves each playing the same classical heroine—in two different adaptations of plays by Sophocles. Both play Antigone, the obdurate daughter of King Oedipus—he of Freud’s ...

In an era of political discontent, when voices demanding justice rise with intensity, Oedipus Rex, directed by Declan ...

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Icke is so attuned to politics that even one jarring detail – no campaign anywhere would risk drinking champagne before the ...

This was true when Sophocles first staged his play, based on well-known myths, in fifth century BC Athens; it is certainly true with this modern reimagining, written and directed by Robert Icke. As ...

Avaaz: A Persian hostess celebrates the Iranian New Year in this story of resilience and rebirth; on stage through Nov. 17, Denver Center Theatre Company, Singleton Theatre, DCPA, 14th and Curtis ...

The classicist John Tresidder Sheppard deemed Sophoclean language "hard to analyse, impossible to translate", said Arifa ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

Worcester soprano Maria Ferrante and pianist Ivan Gusev in beguiling program "Music for a While" in Gilbertville ...

Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts.

LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote ...

His performance just less than an hour earlier in the role of Coriolanus did not only resonate with the audience. As a ...