The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free theater with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” this weekend. Performances are June 7, 8, 14, and 15 at ...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has met with Greek shipowners and government ...

In every Greek tragedy, the fatal flaw is rooted not in villainy ... In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Luke sees what no one else dared to. Not the mask, not the myth, but the man beneath it. And for ...

In both an after-episode feature and on the show’s official podcast, White explains: “It’s a classic theme of Greek tragedy ... to have to rip off the mask and see that he’s not that ...

In tragedy, for instance, a relatively bland mask can make it easier to associate ... First used in performance in the theatres of Greek and Roman antiquity – the largest Hellenistic venues ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its ...

(According to tradition, tragedy was originally ... an imported rather than a Greek god, and that the maenads existed only in myth and literature. Two theatrical masks—one tragic, one comic ...

However, we then see him in a more elaborately created mask, which features makeup smeared over it. Then, his third disguise, shown later on, takes on a sadder appearance. Tobe Hooper wanted these ...

High up on a cliff overlooking a bay on the Greek island of Lesbos ... with the film-makers until towards the end, when the mask slips and there, in Frontex’s vast Warsaw HQ, the disparity ...

From the grand stages of ancient Greece to the bustling theaters of today, the iconic comedy and drama masks have long symbolized the dual nature of theatrical storytelling. Whether you’re a ...

Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent makes Greek tragedy look easy, which it most certainly isn’t. She finds a style here — which the entire, exceptional ensemble aligns to — that expresses an ...