As a playwright, Ellen McLaughlin has breathed new life into ancient Greek
texts. Today we focus on her versions of classic plays by Aeschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides, exploring the questions they once raised for
ancient audiences, and still raise for contemporary audiences. For
instance, the major tragedians were all war veterans, writing for audiences
composed predominantly of war veterans, a dynamic that has not existed in
Western theatre for 2500 years. What do ancient Greeks have to teach us
about the costs of war, and what we owe to veterans?

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