Continuing its summer programme is the 2025 edition of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. Following its season premiere in early July, the next production arrives on Friday and ...

Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director Robert Icke’s adaptation, “Oedipus,” which fuses the primal power of the ancient tragedy with a modern-day ...

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the 5th ...

The emotional range and intensity of this production is extraordinary. Tragedy, melodrama, satire, farce and musical comedy all have their moments in "The Trojan Women," playing at Theater ...

Reading Greek Tragedy Online has produced over 50 episodes, including all the existing works of Greek tragedy. The performances have been viewed by thousands of people all over the world, from all ...

Through this research, she has developed a new concept for studying ancient tragedy in contemporary theatre, called 'paralinguistic translation'. Her theory promotes analysis of all productions of ...

Icke, 37, is one of Britain’s hottest directors, acclaimed for reinvigorating the classics in productions including another ancient Greek tragedy, “Oresteia,” and the Shakespeare adaptation ...

LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars ...