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Theatre productions about nursing home escapees, a Greek mythology-obsessed drag club, and five friends bonding over a girls ...
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in action. The early orchestras of ancient Greece also referred to theatrical performers and choruses.SUPPLIED / Stuff In modern English, ‘‘orchestra ...
In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this one-man tour de force.
The Greek classical play "Medea" was staged yesterday evening by Dhaka Theatre at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy's Studio Theatre Auditorium in the capital’s Segun Bagicha Road. Directed by ...
Nia Vardalos, star and writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is bringing her acclaimed play Tiny Beautiful Things to Athens — and will perform in Greek for the first time. Euronews Culture sat ...
Satyr plays use wordplay, double entendres, and potty humor to undermine and poke fun at Greek tragedy. They are a precursor ...
Other Greek popular forms of theatre included pantomimes, in which masked but silent actors presented mimed and danced versions of mythical subjects narrated by a chorus, and mimes, which were ...
In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the 5th ...
In ancient Greece, satyrs were considered wild creatures. They were often associated with Dionysus, the Greek god of “fertility, wine, vegetation, pleasure, ecstasy and ritual madness,” as ...
Construction workers discovered a mosaic floor from the 4th century B.C.E. while installing underground water pipelines in Eretria, a Greek town north of Athens. The mosaic, made of white, black ...
The mosaic, which is in "an excellent state of conservation," measures 3.3 feet (1.13 meters) wide and was made using pebbles of different colors laid out in a pattern to depict two male satyrs ...