ADRIENNE KENNEDY HEARS ANCIENT VOICES.(adaptation of Greek classic, Oedipus Rex)(Brief Article)

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. 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 ...