The first plays were performed with just one actor (called a protagonist) and a chorus of people who helped him to tell the story. However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to ...

The most interesting single feature of her method of translation is her treatment of metre. The dialogue is put into iambic lines of varying lengths, normally of five feet. The choruses of two of the ...

FEW persons were present at the first performance of the King Œdipus at Sanders Theatre who did not feel before the play was out that the occasion was of no trivial significance. Most of the audience ...

Empty beer bottles littered the ground, while the crowd’s playful jeering and loud laughter resembled that of an ancient Greek theater. This is no frat party, just an imitation — this is “The Boys.” ...

In Greek mythology, Dionysus is the god who oversees vegetables and fruit, particularly the making of wine from grapes, and thus is also connected to ecstatic partying. Dionsysus is also the god of ...

Following the success of 2019’s Oedipus at Colonus, the same creative team led by Director Dan Goldman present an exciting double bill: the earliest surviving Greek tragedy Persians by Aeschylus and ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - The cancellation of a Greek National Theatre play critics had attacked as glorifying convicted killers has ignited a debate on political violence and art censorship in the country ...

Next Tuesday at 8 o'clock trials will be held in Holden for all four parts in the chorus of the Greek play to be given in the Stadium next June. As a knowledge of Greek is unnecessary, the competition ...