It will outlast Salesman and perhaps Macbeth. Of the colossuses, the oldest is Oedipus, and being oldest, the most robust. It featured a powerhouse translation by classicist Nicholas Rudall, a dazzling, all-white scenic design, and a chorus that walked amongst the audience. Court Theatre in Chicago just staged Oedipus to rave reviews. Then there’re the colossuses: Sophocles’ Oedipus rex, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Friedrich Schiller’s 1782 play, The Robbers, is remembered today as an example of the “Storm and Stress” art movement. Other plays enter the canon, but languish on the fringes as historical curiosities. Some plays, such as Norton and Sackville’s Gorboduc from 1561, have been produced many times. Have you heard of Antiphon’s Andromache? I didn’t think so. When Genius Failed: A Risk Theatre Reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus rexĪ Presentation to Laurel Bowman’s GRS 320 Greek Tragedy Class
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