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3 days ago · The journey from central Athens to Korydallos is a daily routine for Aikaterini Papageorgiou. As the director and facilitator at the Korydallos Prison Theater Workshop, she and 26 inmates are now preparing Sophocles’ “Antigone,” following last year’s presentation of “The Persians.”. The performance is scheduled for June 11 and 12 in ...
4 days ago · The tale is based on Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone, and all who fall prey to unbending hubris and the destruction it causes. This is the story of a bright Jewish college senior named Judy...
1 day ago · One famous example of these questions is found in Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone.” The play’s title character buries her dead brother in defiance of the authorities. She explains to her sister that our obligations to the dead are deeper and longer than our obligations to the living. The moments of this world are fleeting.
3 days ago · Dear Readers, I’ve had to postpone writing about Sophocles’ other, even stranger Oedipus play once again. I’m late with this, because in my little world, one lovely thing and one terrible thing happened, two days apart, earlier this month.
1 day ago · One famous example of these questions is found in Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone.” The play’s title character buries her dead brother in defiance of the authorities.
4 days ago · LAURENT PERNICE – ANTIGONE. Quite a few scores are written for old (silent) movies, but Laurent Pernice goes further back in time, presenting his score for Sophocles’ Antigone, a play written in 441 BC! This score was written for the play as performed by Anima Motrix, directed by Emma Gustafsso and Laurent Hatat.
5 days ago · As in her reading of Sophocles’s Antigone, Weil rejects the idea that the tragedy stems from an opposition of natural and positive law, just as Venice Saved is not about the opposition between desire for conquest and moral scruple. True tragedy for Weil shows rather the discrepancy between two different orders, a natural and a transcendent one.
