Word: greekness
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...Antigone in New York. , Polish emigre Janusz Glowacki has carved a niche as the U.S. stage's foremost writer on the East European immigrant experience, and he may be the most incisive satirist as well. Washington's Arena Stage impeccably mounted this odd lark, derived from Greek myth, about two derelicts' attempt to bury a fallen comrade -- interspersed with caustic remarks about two soulless worlds: the KGB's Russia and Manhattan...
...black South African terrorist was raw but unforgettable in Eric Simonson's epic staging, brought to Broadway by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. K.Todd Freeman glowed in the title role, Zakes Mokae excelled as several elders, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the a cappella singing group, served gloriously as a modern Greek chorus...
...Born in Manhattan, Seidel majored in the classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Studying Greek democracy and the Roman republic, he says, created in him a “sense of commitment to the public good and public service.” By the time he came to Cambridge to attend the Graduate School of Design in 1999, he planned to bring his experience in the ivory tower into the public arena...
...each of those countries agree with their governments’ position. Indeed, influential leaders in each of these countries, including French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are fervently against Turkey’s inclusion in the EU. Further east, an October poll showed that Greeks have become more skeptical about Turkish membership in the last year—almost 60 percent of Greek voters now oppose that possibility. To make things worse, Austria almost imploded negotiations before they began by stating that “full membership should not be the ultimate objective of the talks...
Zander described the piece as having “the power of Greek tragedy, the apocalyptic grandeur of ‘Oedipus Rex.’” To me, however, the beginning and end of the one-movement piece was more reminiscent of Dostoyevsky than Sophocles, with the restlessness of the low strings and the psychological irritation present throughout. The middle of the overture, however, had a more classically veiled sound...