Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2004
Keywords
Dramatic metaphor, Contemporary theatre
Abstract
Imagine my surprise as I walked around Athens in April of 1995, eagerly reading every word on every sign I saw, trying to digest my surroundings and intensify my encounter with the Greek language--imagine my surprise to see the same startling word painted on the side of one truck after another, the word metaforai.
It was a foreign land, a new culture for me. Maybe it would not be totally outrageous to find one truck full of metaphors, but two...three...a dozen? This is quite a business in Greece! Maybe when you have a culture that is three or four thousand years old you need a fleet of trucks to carry your metaphors around in.
Publication Title
The Journal of Religion and Theatre
Volume
3
Issue
1
Required Publisher's Statement
The Journal of Religion and Theatre is published by the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Copyright is held by the author.
Recommended Citation
Larner, Daniel, "Trucking Systems From Greece To America: Metaphorai, The Bacchai, and the Problem of Vision in the Contemporary Theatre" (2004). Fairhaven Faculty Publications. 2.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/fairhaven_facpubs/2
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Metaphor; Drama—History and criticism
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Dionysus (Greek deity); Kushner, Tony. Angels in America
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
