374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
The History of Literature
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You're There, You'll Be There
In the theatre, you're not sitting there as a pseudo critic or someone os going to make three or four good points about the play at dinner and then go to sleep in your comfortable bed. Youre there is a human being stark, defenceless, alone, attuned, exposed, struggling, striving, beaten down, battered - but maybe with some hope too. That's who the greeks were when they went to see these plays, and that's who you are, or who you can be, when you go to see them. And i think you will find it fascinating. At least i o kroll dall, here's what i left out last time the story of
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