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 Stakes of Life and Death Are Real
The first person who spoke at one of our events was a military spouse. She stood up and she said, hello. My name is marcel. And my husband went away four times to war. Each time he came back, just like ajax did in the play, dragging invisible bodies into our house. To quote from the play, our home is a slaughter house. All it takes us one person to crack open a room.
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