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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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The Theatre Is a Tool for Engaging a Dialogue That Wouldn't Be Possible

Theatre is a tool for bringing everybody together under a tent and engaging a dialogue that otherwise wouldn't be possible. We're not saying to the audience in red state america or in san francisco, this is you. We're just asking people to listen to each other's interpretations of the story. And weall, i think, can acknowledge that we're entitled to an interpretation, even if we don't agree with these othe others interpretations.

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