All Our Tragic - Part II
All Our Tragic, #2
Reeks: All Our Tragic
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
- TRIBUNEA
- contemporary
- Festival
- of
- Dionysus!
- This
- brilliant
- work
- by
- playwright
- Sean
- Graney
- undertakes
- a
- day-long
- play
- retelling
- of
- the
- thirty-two
- surviving
- Greek
- tragedies.PART
- II:
- POLITICS
- includes:THE
- BACCHAE
- -
- ION
- -
- OEDIPUS
- REX
- -
- OEDIPUS
- AT
- COLONUS
- -
- SEVEN
- AGAINST
- THEBES
- -
- THE
- PHOENICIAN
- WOMEN
- -
- ANTIGONE"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
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