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A hero's body: Greek tragedy and Navalny

How Sophocles' wrenching tragedy "Antigone," written 2,500 years ago, prefigured the aftermath of Navalny's death

Salon

Mother of all messes as two Oedipus productions announced in London

Old Vic announces play starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma just 30 minutes after Wyndham’s confirms Robert Icke staging

The Guardian - UK

Elektra, Royal Opera House review: Nina Stemme and Karita Mattila power a revelatory take on Greek tragedy

The two sopranos at the centre of Christof Loy's production offer up fascinating new perspectives

Evening Standard

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Ex-Speaker McCarthy's departure from Congress reads like Greek tragedy – but stars a 'slight unmeritable man' and not a hero

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s departure from Congress brings to mind ambition and the other side of ambition’s coin, humiliation – the thirst for fame and power on one side, ignominious failure on the other.

The Conversation

Should I have children? Here's what the philosophers say

Parenthood has traditionally been considered the normal outcome of growing up. A side effect of reaching maturity. Across Europe and the US, only 10%-20% of adults remain childless or (more positively) child free. In some cases, this is accidental. People wait for an ideal time that never arrives – and…

The Conversation

From ancient Greece to Broadway, music has played a critical role in theater

Though anxiety about the fate of live theater performances still lingers, Broadway is celebrating its third season since reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, with a lineup dominated once again by musicals.

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Glorious church music carries Court’s ‘Gospel at Colonus’

While the ‘Oedipus’ adaptation sometimes struggles to clarify what is sermon and what is Sophocles, the songs stir up plenty of joy.

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Why we’ll keep finding meaning in the 'Oedipus Rex' plague drama far beyond COVID-19

Now that the World Health Organization has said COVID-19 “no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern” but is instead “an ongoing health issue,” how will theatre makers and audiences read plague- and pandemic-themed plays?

The Conversation

LZ Granderson: The lonely exit of Adam Kinzinger

In January 2011, the Chicago Tribune published a Q&A with Illinois' five freshmen in the U.S. House. Among them was Republican Adam Kinzinger, who had run for Congress after three tours in Iraq. When the quintet were asked, "Whom do you admire from the other side of the aisle?" four…

Los Angeles Times

Friendship, humanity are put to the test amid the most horrific of circumstances in ‘The Island’

Brotherhood, tyranny, unjust incarceration, revolution — there’s much to unpack thematically in “The Island,” but director Gabrielle Randle-Bent propels the dialogue with a clarity that shines like a knife and an urgency that can’t be denied.

Chicago Sun-Times

Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation

Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance

The Guardian - UK

Can we time travel? A theoretical physicist provides some answers

Time travel makes regular appearances in popular culture, with innumerable time travel storylines in movies, television and literature. But it is a surprisingly old idea: one can argue that the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles over 2,500 years ago, is the first time travel story.

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