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Life education group Arts’ Options gives drama training to over-55s in Hong Kong, and hopes to form the city’s first professional older-age acting troupe. Participants gain self-worth and new skills.

This document presents principles, standards, and resources to help Catholic elementary and secondary educators select literature and other works of art that are formative for a student’s mind, body, and spirit.

This document presents principles, standards, and resources to help Catholic elementary and secondary educators select literature and other works of art that are formative for a student’s mind, body, and spirit.

Can murder excuse murder? In “The Oresteia,” her adaptation of the epic Greek trilogy, contemporary playwright Ellen McLaughlin explores cycles of violence, the ironies of vengeance and the often-tangled search for justice. The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis presents the play Feb. 24 to March 5 in Edison Theatre.

Up close with an ancient bell krater, Directed Studies students get a new perspective on the Oresteia.

Antigone with fish fingers. Oedipus as a corkscrew. And a Greek tragedy that becomes a Greek salad. Every tragedy needs its satyr play. After drama welcome relief is needed. After a hard day watching humans wrestle with the gods of Olympus, what the good people of ancient Greece needed was massive phalluses, the clangour of drums and horns, and actors in ridiculous goatish masks to ease the holy terror they had experienced over a whole day (usually three plays’ worth) of drama. Fast forward t...

Cal Shakes will present a free online reading of an ancient Greek tragedy on Jan. 15.

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