In Sophocles' Antigone, written around 442 BCE, the punishment meted out to the play's iconic title character—and the tragedy that follows—flow from Antigone's determination to give her brother ...

The Greek tragedies ask unpalatable questions. That is why they’re enjoying a revival in 2025 West End theatre is in a weird and unsettling place. It feels as though something that might once have ...

Claire Armitstead (Ancient tales are back in fashion – for telling it like it is, 16 July) is only partly right. Surely the truth is that these tales were never out of fashion. Take Sophocles’ ...

The ancient Greeks knew a thing or two about life amid tragedy. In his new book Theater of War, how Bryan Doerries’s own grief led him to help today’s vets act out their suffering. The first plays I ...

One day a gifted auteur will come along and meet the challenge of Sophocles’ hard-nosed brilliance in “Philoctetes,” which has never been among the most popular of his seven extant tragedies. But ...

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