Social politics has been a major motivating force in productions of Greek plays in North America. From the earliest known show, Medea Outwitted in 1797, to Will Power's The Seven in 2006, producers in America have used ancient Greek theater to reflect cultural tensions in the colonial, federal, and modern periods. This chapter focuses on eight North American productions of Greek tragedy and comedy spanning more than two hundred years and examines their reception in American and Canadian culture. They are the Boston Haymarket's Medea and Jason in 1798, The Bowery Oedipus in 1834,Vandenhoff's Antigone in 1845, Acharnians in Philadelphia in 1886, Margaret Anglin's Antigone at Berkeley in 1910, Guthrie's Oedipus Rex at Stratford, Ontario, in 1954, Richard Schechner's Dionysus in '69 in 1968; and Will Power's The Seven in 2006. Medea and Jason has been regarded as the earliest known staged version of a Greek play in America.
Greek Drama in North America
2016-04-28
25 pages
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English
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