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An ancient Greek play about the wounds of war is getting a new angle in A Female Philoctetes — a production made up of mostly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. And I'm Robert Siegel. There's an ancient ...
The screams of agony from the soldier echoed through the ballroom-turned-theater, forcing a hushed whisper among those witnessing his sudden break with reality. He was no longer with his wife, seated ...
SAN DIEGO -- At a conference dedicated to finding new ways to help Marines recover from post-traumatic stress and other disorders after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Marines are looking to an ...
The Harvard Classical Club will produce the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles on the evenings of March 15 and 17 in the Lowell House dining room, it was announced yesterday. The production will be under the ...
The dramas of Sophocles are part of the glory that was Greece, but rarely in this day and age are they part of the theater that is ours. Once in a while, a director like Joanne Akalaitis will strike ...
It’s rare to come across a piece of work that is so simultaneously extraordinary and infuriating, but Paradise, Kae Tempest’s reworking of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, is such a production. Ian Rickson’s ...
Despite its age of nearly 2 1/2 millennia, the tale at the heart of "The Cure at Troy" still offers a sensible prescription for healing. When the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney premiered this ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. An ancient Greek play about the wounds of ...