oa About Western man and the ‘gap’ that is constantly threatening him: Or how to deal with the tragic when staging Greek tragedies today?

The revival of Greek tragedy at the end of the twentieth century raises a number of important aesthetic, philosophical and existential questions. Once we accept that Greek tragedy expresses a number of basic categories of Western thinking and behaving, we also have to acknowledge that the tragic feeling characterizes us more than we would like to agree upon. The history of this existential and philosophical way of thinking will be explored in a twofold way, which will be called “the myth of unity” and “the myth of plurality”.