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fromVulture
1 day ago

In Anna Ziegler's Antigone, the Heroine Meets Her Reader

Ancient Greek tragedies remain relevant because they explore universal human conflicts at monumental scale, particularly female agency and resistance to unjust authority, themes still unresolved in contemporary society.
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

The Other Place Is a Low-Stakes Antigone

We've seen Robert Icke's Oedipus as a political thriller on Broadway last fall, Shayok Misha Chowdhury's revival of the choral Gospel at Colonus at Little Island in the summer (if you missed that, I recommend a tape of the 1985 production on YouTube), and now, Alexander Zeldin's The Other Place at the Shed, a version of Antigone turned into a bourgeois family drama.
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