This program is funded by Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
Plague. Questions of Leadership. Communities in Crisis. Family Conflict. Exile. Honoring the Dead. Communal Grief. These core themes from the Theban plays feel strikingly relevant in today’s global pandemic. As recent productions of Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson (2016) demonstrate, these stories have the power of bringing communities together to start the healing process through the collective experience of live performance. While the story of Oedipus has been retold throughout the centuries in all kinds of artistic media all over the world, from Homer, Sophocles, and Seneca to Hegel, Stravinsky, and Rita Dove, this workshop will focus on the story of Oedipus in the African Diaspora.
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