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Article: 15-hour play to open in Denver in 2000; 'Tantalus' ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  July 9, 1999 ;     548 words ..."Tantalus" is a colossal play in every sense of ... will present a 10-play cycle of the Trojan War chronicle. Fifteen hours of theater ... extraordinarily lengthy, groundbreaking "Tantalus" is likely to influence playwrights ...

Transcript: Profile: Greek play "Tantalus"
NPR Morning Edition;  October 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 Profile: Greek play Tantalus Host: BOB EDWARDS Time ... in Denver. It's called Tantalus. It's a 10-part Greek ... the myth and mystery of the Trojan War. It's taken six months ... from five countries to get Tantalus to the stage. Last month ...

Article: 'Tantalus' worth time, money/ Cast, story bring ancient ...
The Gazette;  October 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... theatrical universe. "Tantalus," based on myth ... s cycle about the Trojan War was simply whether it ... If the setting for "Tantalus" is largely ancient ... insistence that the Trojan War be a just one. "In ... the time-scale of "Tantalus," it's possible ...

Article: Flogging a Trojan Horse - Tantalus Fails to ...
World and I;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the epic cycle. Barton's work was given the title of Tantalus--not because the ancient myth of Tantalus was connected to the Trojan War, but because Barton supposes that Tantalus, who was condemned to a fate of perpetually unsatisfied ...

Article: Whom the gods would destroy . . . The epic production of ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... at the Barbican Theatre. Tantalus was condemned to stand chin ... example than the making of Tantalus itself. Strange that a play ... 1980 first assault on the Trojan War, a marathon storyline carved ... with the last three plays of Tantalus. I've now read the first ...

Article: THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE.(A&E)(Review - Live ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  October 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... in every respect, "Tantalus" aims at nothing less ... of the story of the Trojan War, "Tantalus" is a new work with ... lost bits" of the Trojan War epic, starting generations ... we understand that "Tantalus" won't be the kind ...

Article: Tantalizing theater: In an unusual collaboration, two theater ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... King Agamemnon, a hero of the Trojan War, was one of Tantalus's descendants. So it is only ... new 10-play cycle about the Trojan War lasting 10-1/2 hours - be named "Tantalus" - both for the house of Tantalus ...