ADRIENNE KENNEDY HEARS ANCIENT VOICES.(adaptation of Greek classic, Oedipus Rex)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, October, 2000 by Pierre, Karly
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Hartford Stage Company's millennial season celebrates legendary Western dramatists--and the Connecticut theatre has commissioned the help of a contemporary legend in the process. Three-time Obie-winner Adrienne Kennedy has adapted Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King for the Hartford footlights.
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Her version doesn't radically stray from the original, she says, but is an ode to a style that inspired her writing. "In many ways the Greeks are my favorite playwrights," Kennedy confesses. "I'm drawn to the language. I stumbled onto a Modern Library paperback edition ...
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