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Mee draws upon diverse sources of inspiration–ranging from Aeschylus to Robert Rauschenberg–to confront a broken, jagged world resistant to being put back together. Mee’s work has never been ...

First produced in 472 B.C., Aeschylus’s “The Persians” is considered the oldest surviving Greek play. This Dimitris Lignadis staging was broadcast live on Saturday from the ancient ...

THE third episode of the Prometheus begins with the sudden and unannounced entrance of Io. She is an innocent maiden, daughter of Inachos, an Argive river-god. Being wooed by Zeus, she excited the ...

(Plato 430) Based on this, the poetry of Aeschylus, to Socrates’ reckoning, should not exist, let alone we find in it a source of morality. Mark Edmundson explains, “…poetry stirs up ...

Erin Gann as Xerxes and Helen Carey as Atossa in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Aeschylus' "The Persians," a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Ethan McSweeny.

The play is "Big Love," New York playwright Charles (Chuck) Mee's adaptation of "The Suppliants," a Greek tragedy written around 466 B.C. by Aeschylus. "Big Love" inaugurates A Contemporary ...

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The Hellenic Cultural Center in partnership with the Honors College of Houston Baptist University will perform Aeschylus’s Oresteia, Friday, October 15, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the Dunham Theater of ...

Ever since he'd started the theater 12 years earlier, he'd wanted to adapt "The Persians," an obscure anti-war drama written by Aeschylus in 479 B.C., which is the earliest existing play in ...

The curtain had fallen on the Gesher Theater’s production of Aeschylus’ great trilogy, the Oresteia. What struck many reviewers was how closely the political and moral issues facing the ...