Today we're going to look at how Greek comedy evolved out of those tragedies, first as Satyr plays, and later as full-blown comedies. This week, we're diving head first into Greek Comedy.

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 Euripides added both a prologue ...

Written in 458 BC, it’s the only remaining ancient Greek trilogy. In fact, there was a fourth part: Proteus, a satyr play that only exists in a tiny fragment. Of the 70 to 90 plays written by ...

Light relief is what the ancient Greek Satyr plays sought to provide - a riotous comic antidote to the doom and gloom of tragedy. And light relief is precisely what Phil Willmott's brisk ...

Following the success of 2019’s Oedipus at Colonus, the same creative team led by Director Dan Goldman present an exciting double bill: the earliest surviving Greek tragedy Persians by Aeschylus and ...

All they find are the tedious petitions of the poor . . . until they stumble on a long-lost satyr play by Sophocles. At which point, Grenfell is transfigured into the Greek god Apollo and finds ...