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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Theater artists find depth in search for families
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chomet has essayed some meaty characters onstage, including Antigone in "Burial at Thebes" at the Guthrie last year. The stage is not just where she works, she said. It is also a place where she hopes to explore publicly the deeply personal, ...


 
D'Amato: Grade 8 students take creative journey with Greek tragedy
Waterloo Record
Antigone Park Manor Public School student Kurt Michael performs in a dress rehearsal for Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone. After eight weeks of rehearsal, the play is being staged this week. A man named Oedipus kills his father ...

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National Post
Michael Lista, On Poetry: Antigonick, by Anne Carson
National Post
Kreon, King of Thebes, having repelled the Argive Army, has decreed that Antigone's traitorous brother Polyneikes will not be allowed proper burial rights. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, disobeys Kreon — citing a fealty to religious tradition, ...

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BUZZER, CLYBOURNE PARK, et al. Set for Guthrie Theatre's 2012-13 Season
Broadway World
Dowling additionally announced that An Iliad will be performed by longtime Guthrie favorite Stephen Yoakam (The Birds, The Burial at Thebes). Dowling also announced that the Guthrie's production of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris in the McGuire ...

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Webster E. Phillips
Pontiac Daily Leader
Burial will be in Patty Cemetery following services. Military rites will be accorded. Friends may call one hour prior to the service at the funeral home Monday. He was born Dec. 15, 1920, in Thebes, a son of Webster Jennings and Ada Marie (Gulley) ...


 
Discover the History, Art and Cultures of the Ancient World
MarketWatch (press release)
Both itineraries include a journey to the Pyramids and the Sphinx at the royal burial ground at Giza and the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. In Luxor guests visit Karnak, Thebes and the Valley of the Kings, burial place of the New Kingdom ...

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National Geographic
Howard Carter: "Miraculous," Misunderstood Man Behind Google's Doodle
National Geographic
Carter spent decades as an archaeological excavator exploring burial sites in ancient Thebes (now Luxor) before finding the roughly 3000-year-old resting place of Tutankhamen, Darnell pointed out. (Take an interactive tour of Tut's tomb.) ...
Who Is Howard Carter? 5 Things To Know About The Man In The Latest Google DoodleInternational Business Times
Howard Carter, the original Indiana Jones (+video)Christian Science Monitor

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