All Our Tragic by Sean Graney
By whatever alchemy, it serves the greatest collection of stories ever written - adds to them, modernizes them, makes them feel fresh, forces you to see them both strange and familiar.There has not been anything quite like this ever before. - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
A contemporary Festival of Dionysus This massive work by playwright Sean Graney undertakes a day-long play retelling of the thirty-two surviving Greek tragedies. PART I: HEROICS includes:PROMETHEUS BOUND
THE SEVEN SISTERS
THE CYCLOPS
MEDEA
ALKESTIS
HYPOLYTUS
THE SUPLIANT
THE PERSIANS
PH DRE
HERACLES
WOMEN OF TRACHIS
THE HERACLEIDAE
All Our Tragic is a sprawling, messy, at-times-brilliant show, much like the lives of those it portrays and would hope to honor. It is a singular achievement, one not likely to be repeated any time soon. - GAPERS BLOCK, CHICAGO
We see the full range of relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, politicians and citizens, generals and soldiers. We see the horrors and insanity of war in all their extremity, the gruesome payback for sexual betrayals, the high price paid for loyalty, the futility of prophecy and the wages of guilt. We see people driven to acts of both devotion and madness. We feel the lust for power, the ache for home, and the inevitability of death. - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES An ambitious production that exceeds expectation (as if it's possible to even know what to expect of a 12-hour performance ), All Our Tragic is simply unforgettable, on so many levels. It's not really a show or even a play, but an experience, a total immersion into the imaginations of Sean Graney and the Greeks. The end result is that the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides really do become ours: they are all our tragic. - STAGE AND CINEMA| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781957328898 |
| ISBN 10 | 1957328894 |
| Title | All Our Tragic |
| Author | Sean Graney |
| Series | All Our Tragic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sordelet Ink |
| Year published | 2023-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |