Anne Carson

March 22, 2009 to April 19, 2009 Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th St., New York, NY

Anne Carson's stunning new translation, An Oresteia  is a tale told by each of ancient Greece's greatest tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Carson, the critically-acclaimed poet whose works include Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband and Decreation. The New York Review of Bookswrites, "Carson has created an individual form and style of verse—seldom has Pound's injunction "Make It New" been so spectacularly obeyed." Ms. Carson has the singular distinction of receiving the Lannan, Pushcart, Griffen, and T. S. Eliot Prizes for her poetry, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships for her distinguished body of work that also includes her scholarly writing (Eros, The Bittersweet and The Economy of the Unlost). Her celebrated translations of Sophocles and Euripides have been heralded by the New York Review of Books as the "gold standard" in bringing these works into the English language, and The New York Times hailed her as "one of the most extraordinary poets writing in English."