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In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson’s snarling Elektra is a marvel in the murk

The Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish’s radical rewiring of the ancient play

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

This third volume brings a characteristic blend of brusque wisdom and piercing compassion to the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra

TODAY in St Columba’s Kirk, at the top of the Royal Mile from 3-4pm, I’m introducing a session on Tragedy & Translation. For my money, this…

Soon-to-be parents get into a severe argument when the woman sets her mind on naming their daughter Clytemnestra. The post Man Despises The Name Wife Loves For Their Baby, Asks For Help Online As She Won’t Budge first appeared on Bored Panda.

When political solutions lose out to vengeance, in Aeschylus’s words, ‘Where will it end?’

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have also been leaving the workforce since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases to care for children and elderly…

Between dreamlike, choreographed scene transitions, the bodies pile up, each death ruthless, complex and — a credit to Aleshea Harris’ writing — unexpected.