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'CURE' BETRAYS A TIMELESS QUALITY PLAY REWORKS A LESSER-KNOWN SOPHOCLES TALE.(Life and Arts)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20080411
Author:Truzzi, Gianni

Byline: GIANNI TRUZZI Special to the P-I

Despite its age of nearly 21/2 millennia, the tale at the heart of "The Cure at Troy" still offers a sensible prescription for healing. When the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney premiered this work at Field Day Theater Company in 1990, the application of Sophocles' drama to the animosities of Northern Ireland was plain.

That's fully revealed in this cunning production, which cajoles, then strikes to persuade us that reconciliation is the only answer to accrued grievance.

Heaney's adaptation takes no liberties nor ...

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