I now understand why Deborah Warner cannot direct Greek tragedy (and why only middle-class decorum held me from walking out from the two dreadful productions of hers I had the misfortune of attending), she sounds so complacently clueless! 'The lines are not poetry'? Give me strength, oh ye gods! Even if 'we don't speak Ancient Greek', although not as proud as she to be such ignoramuses, one thing we know is that tragedies are tragic poetry and the great tragedians were and were known as 'tragic poets' (ditto Shakespeare, the Bard). Perhaps she should go and find adaptations/translations that are alert to the iambic of tragic texts? Just a suggestion. And as if that was not enough to make one's blood boil, she added that terrible (and false) 'the tragedies are about families' nonsense. Please, Debbie, do us and yourself a favour and go direct some drama, melodrama, TV series, but leave tragedy alone, you are obviously not up to the task.
I now understand why Deborah Warner cannot direct Greek tragedy (and why only middle-class decorum held me from walking out from the two dreadful productions of hers I had the misfortune of attending), she sounds so complacently clueless! 'The lines are not poetry'? Give me strength, oh ye gods! Even if 'we don't speak Ancient Greek', although not as proud as she to be such ignoramuses, one thing we know is that tragedies are tragic poetry and the great tragedians were and were known as 'tragic poets' (ditto Shakespeare, the Bard). Perhaps she should go and find adaptations/translations that are alert to the iambic of tragic texts? Just a suggestion. And as if that was not enough to make one's blood boil, she added that terrible (and false) 'the tragedies are about families' nonsense. Please, Debbie, do us and yourself a favour and go direct some drama, melodrama, TV series, but leave tragedy alone, you are obviously not up to the task.
Bless you for this
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