Burning Coal Theatre Company and Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh collaborate on a world premiere adaptation of The Greeks, adapted by Ian Finley from the plays of Sophocles (Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone), originally written in the 5th century BC (about 2500 years ago). The plays have been produced regularly since then. They were written as part of the Festival of Dionysus which itself was a religious ceremony that morphed over the years into something like what we think of as theatre today. Athens was then a "City-State" with a powerful army and navy, and it dominated the known world. Sophocles plays are extraordinary in that they challenged the accepted religious dogma and the supremacy of the State.
