Ancient Greek tragedy feels fresh in WOMEN OF TRACHIS
SALT LAKE CITY — With its slowly unwinding domestic tragedy, Sophocles’s Women of Trachis has been...
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“Act with speed” to see ELECTRA
SALT LAKE CITY — Written by Sophocles around 411 BC, Electra is a Greek tragedy that proved 2,400...
Read MoreOEDIPUS THE KING is an eye-popping tragedy
SALT LAKE CITY — At the end of Westminster College’s production of Oedipus the King, a chorus of nine actors sang the haunting words, “Call no man happy until that person dies free from sorrow.” In other words,...
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Fear and crowd politics in absorbing COMEDY OF OEDIPUS
OGDEN — “The truth is the truth because it is the truth.” Or so declares Tiresias, the blind...
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ANTIGONE is new again in 2012
SALT LAKE CITY — The most important news story of 2011 was, unquestionably, the Arab Spring....
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