374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
The History of Literature
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Zoom and the Pandemic
Theater of war productions inform what you thought was needed in a new translation of sophocles. So there's a direct reciprocity in our process between the audience and the translation itself. As translator, i see no differnce between directing and translating. Directing has a larger palet than the translator, who sits behind a table or a desk. But then there's another element of the work we do, which is the audience is the participating partner in the act of translation. We can now touch people in their homes, in their places of work of worship. We can also connect with people on research vessels in antarctica and on aircraft carriers in the pacific. And there
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