Nowadays, few people know that Hermione is a character in Homer's Odyssey. But what is her significance and role in Greek mythology?

We live in tragic times given over to cataclysmic events that require outsized emotions in return. That may be one reason to account for the uptick, therefore, in Greek drama, which includes not one ...

A loose adaptation of the Aeschylus’ trilogy in a contemporary modern take by British playwright Robert Icke, a monumental, ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...

Elektra feels like a work in progress, an early read-through in which the rough edges are yet to be smoothed. Even Brie ...

Stockard Channing also features in this London staging of Anne Carson's translation, directed by Daniel Fish, whose radical ...

The play is an adaptation of the original Greek tragedy Electra by Sophocles about a young woman named Electra trying to get ...

New Ghosts Theatre Company (NGTC) will present a return season of their 2020 production of Gary Owen’s IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT at ...

Brie Larson's riot grrrl Greek is an exercise in alienation - Larson is extraordinary but this production tests the limits of ...

After the expansiveness of Oedipus at the Old Vic, complete with dancing chorus, this version of Sophocles’s Elektra specialises in stripped back starkness – and comes with a singing chorus in true ...

Since epic and tragic heroes are in positions of power, temperament and action mesh. The Greek hero Achilles’ clash with the ...