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Iphigenia review: A clumsy and unnecessary attempt to make Euripides relevant

2/5 This play at the Arcola Theatre by Turkish director Serdar Biliş has a contemporary and experimental approach to Greek tragedy that doesn’t quite pull together

Evening Standard

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker audiobook review – beware the grief of Clytemnestra

The story of Agamemnon’s fateful return to Mycenae is vividly captured in a retelling of The Iliad that gives Homer’s women a voice

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Oedipus; Elektra review – all Greek

In a busy week for Sophocles and star casting, Rami Malek is the weak link in a radical new Oedipus with dancing chorus, while Brie Larson’s snarling Elektra is a marvel in the murk

The Guardian - UK

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Elektra review – Brie Larson makes a fearless West End debut in punk tragedy

The Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish’s radical rewiring of the ancient play

The Guardian - UK

Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert

The Greek divinity Nemesis, rarely depicted in art, has no place in the Olympian pantheon of a dozen gods and goddesses. But she’s an omnipresent force of retribution, an implacable force of punishment that arrives, if not sooner, then later.

The Conversation

Odyssey by Stephen Fry – the tales of return from the Trojan war are charmingly retold but at an uncomfortable cost

Stephen Fry’s Odyssey is the final instalment in his retellings of Greek myth that began with Mythos. Here, Fry tells us, we move away from the turbulent creation of the gods and the swashbuckling heroes of old, into “a profoundly human story”: a tale of one man’s journey home “to…

The Conversation

Kaos: The Netflix blockbuster turning Greek gods into a 21st-century ‘dysfunctional family’

Jeff Goldblum and Janet McTeer bicker as Zeus and Hera in this new dynastic saga, which reimagines Greek mythology for the present day. Nick Hilton talks to the stars and to screenwriter Charlie Covell about bringing it to life

The Independent UK

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The Voyage Home is a fierce and chilling end to Pat Barker’s Women of Troy trilogy

The legend of Troy – a city sparking with fire, a cataclysmic war and a refugee crisis – always has something more to offer writers looking for inspiration. The unspeakable horrors of conflict. The brutalities written on women’s bodies. The journey that, for the victors, means a voyage home, and…

The Conversation

‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

The Conversation

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker review – a brilliant finale to the Trojan war trilogy

This third volume brings a characteristic blend of brusque wisdom and piercing compassion to the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra

The Guardian - UK

The greatest Greek tragedy told in Scots? Alan Riach on eye-catching Fringe events

TODAY in St Columba’s Kirk, at the top of the Royal Mile from 3-4pm, I’m introducing a session on Tragedy & Translation. For my money, this…

The National (Scotland)

Man Despises The Name Wife Loves For Their Baby, Asks For Help Online As She Won’t Budge

Soon-to-be parents get into a severe argument when the woman sets her mind on naming their daughter Clytemnestra. The post Man Despises The Name Wife Loves For Their Baby, Asks For Help Online As She Won’t Budge first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda

In the Middle East, as in Greek tragedy, justice must prevail over moral absolutism

When political solutions lose out to vengeance, in Aeschylus’s words, ‘Where will it end?’

The Guardian - UK

What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion

After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have also been leaving the workforce since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases to care for children and elderly…

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A torrent of revenge is unleashed in A Red Orchid’s unflinching ‘Is God Is’

Between dreamlike, choreographed scene transitions, the bodies pile up, each death ruthless, complex and — a credit to Aleshea Harris’ writing — unexpected.

Inverse

'The Last of Us 3' Needs To Give Ellie the Redemption She Deserves

Ellie's story still needs a proper ending that wraps up the series's themes about cycles of violence.

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin and Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati.

The Guardian - UK

Irene Papas obituary

Greek stage and screen actor who appeared in The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

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