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The Power of `Gospel'; Workshop Production Revitalizes Sophocles

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19960329
Author:Joseph McLellan

"The Gospel at Colonus," which will have three performances this weekend in a powerful, semi-professional production on Capitol Hill, is a highly improbable blend of materials. As the title suggests, the music is gospel -- vital, contemporary and instantly recognizable as part of the great African American tradition of religious music. The text, with a few small adaptations, is the work of Sophocles, who died nearly 2,500 years ago after writing some 120 plays, of which only seven have survived.

The Athenian society in which Sophocles flourished was based on slavery, treated women as ...

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