Prometheus Bound: A God Stands Up for Humans’ Rights
Prometheus Bound workshop at CalArts. This massive, 23-foot-tall wheel represents the remote mountaintop to which Prometheus is chained. What happens when an individual stands up to the tyrannical rule...
View Article“Persians,” An Ancient Play Remade for the 21st Century
Anne Bogart, director of this fall’s outdoor theater production at the Getty Villa, explains the continuing power of the western world’s oldest tragedy The earliest surviving Greek play, Persians...
View ArticleA Guide to Aeschylus’s “Persians”
The Western world’s oldest surviving play is also one of its most sorrowful. What to know about the unique tragedy coming to the Getty Villa this fall SITI Company production in progress: Ellen Lauren...
View ArticleAeschylus’s Persian Queen: An Actor’s Craft
Five questions for Ellen Lauren, who portrays the queen of Persia in SITI Company’s production of Aeschylus’s Persians In rehearsal: Ellen Lauren (foreground) as the queen of Persia; Will Bond (left)...
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