Two concurrent London productions of Oedipus might seem like overkill, but they actually worked to demonstrate the ...

The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that ... wigs and padded costumes. The chorus, standing below the stage, told the audience what ...

and reduced the chorus from 50 to 12. His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while ...