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374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)

The History of Literature

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I've Been in a Homo Shelter for a While, and I've Had a Lot of Fun Doing It.

When my first performance s in a homo shelter, we wereat a place in long island city which is called the boardon avenue veteran's residence. There were a bunch of men in the front row, and they were on methedon for sir heroinea diction treatment. And i thought, they're not listening. And who else? My own sort of sense of condescension and privilege,. The audience is one of the many places where you know no one inside the space is do you know in any way, you know, misses the stakes of every word that are being said. I got ten volumes back in my cubicle. It was electrifying. It was like a veil was pulled

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