Thebes – a Global Civil War: In Between the Local and the Global, the Contemporary and the Eternal
No. 4 (2023), Protagonists
No. 4 (2023)

Thebes – a Global Civil War: In Between the Local and the Global, the Contemporary and the Eternal

Protagonists
https://doi.org/10.53235/2036-5624/177
Published 2024-12-22
Pantelis Flatsousis
University of Piraeus
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7525-2114
Panayiota Konstantinakou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7571-8393
In copertina: Tullio Pericoli, Terre fragili, 1996
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Keywords

Sette contro Tebe di Eschilo
guerra civile
teatro documentario
verbatim theatre
teatro degli esperti Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
civil war
documentary theatre
verbatim theatre
theatre of experts

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Flatsousis, P., & Konstantinakou, P. (2024). Thebes – a Global Civil War: In Between the Local and the Global, the Contemporary and the Eternal. Visions of the Tragic. Greek Tragedy on the Stage of the 21st Century, (4), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.53235/2036-5624/177
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Abstract

The text discusses briefly the creation of the performance Thebes – a Global Civil War, a contemporary rewriting of Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus performed in the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus (Athens Epidaurus Festival 2023 / Contemporary Ancients cycle) and still on tour.

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