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• EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Illinois nonprofit adoption agency The Cradle is celebrating its 100-year anniversary with The Cradle Centennial Gala fundraiser.
• The event takes place from 6 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, at The Geraghty in Chicago.
• The Cradle is celebrating its 100-year anniversary and bright future ahead with The Cradle Centennial Gala, Sept. 23.
• Our legacy shines with pride, supporting more than 16,000 adoption journeys," says Jason Friedman, President and CEO of The Cradle.

• During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the character Oedipus and the ancient Greek drama based on his tragedy was suddenly everywhere.
• My new edited volume follows global trends in how theatre artists receive and interpret Greek tragedy in contextualizing a Montréal-based theatre company’s new translations of Greek tragedy.

Oedipus abounded

• In the first year of the pandemic, public commentary compared former U.S. president Donald Trump to Oedipus.
• In Los Angeles, a Chicanx version of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus El Rey, written by Luis Alfaro and directed by Chay Yew, was streaming live from the Center Theatre Group in partnership with the Getty Museum.
• The excellent Theater of War company, under the direction of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Bryan Doerries, produced a star-studded zoom version in May 2020, The Oedipus Project, dedicated to first responders.

Theban plague parallels

• The play, directed by Bùi Nhu Lai, was performed and streamed at the 6th Asian Theatre Schools Festival held in Beijing, by the Hà Nội Academy of Theatre and Cinema.
• While some revelled in the fresh take on Oedipus these performances brought, at least one critic wondered if maybe we shouldn’t search for a direct parallel between the Theban plague killing Oedipus’s subjects and COVID-19.

Multiple crises

• As if in response, Doerries’ The Oedipus Project named its themes as the pandemic and the climate crisis.
• That is not only true of the pandemic; we are also the origin of an even bigger drama, the drama of our time: global warming.”

Montréal productions

• My edited volume Scapegoat Carnivale’s Tragic Trilogy documents how between 2010 and 2017, the Montréal theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale produced Euripides’ Medea and Bacchae, and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus.
• The Greek tragedies might have been written to work through fifth-century Athens’ own cultural anxieties, but even in Sophocles’ day, they did so through a mythical past, one as removed from Sophocles as he is from anyone today.

Plague concerns folded into myth

• If Sophocles wrote Oedipus Tyrannus in part as a response to the Athenian plague, he folded that concern into a myth that accommodates today’s diverse and changing global anxieties just as well as his own.
• As Aristotle says, poetry, unlike history, is not concerned with particular facts, but instead with general truths.

‘The city … unable to lift her head’

• In Scapegoat’s contemporary-set staged reading, Shragge’s clean style perfectly captured Sophocles’ irony, humour and pathos.
• Scapegoat’s minimalist staging favoured people over props, with a massive chorus composed of three local choirs.

Long-suffering Thebans

• To see Oedipus and all his long-suffering Thebans embodied onstage (for me, for the first time), mattered, despite Aristotle’s claim that the play is just as good without actually seeing this.
• And Scapegoat’s new translation, like countless others, waits for readers to find new delights in its words, audiences to find new terrors in its enactment and creators to make new meanings of its myth.

• SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt), the world's original and most iconic frozen yogurt brand, is celebrating National Frozen Yogurt Day on Monday, February 6, by giving fans up to six-ounces of free frozen yogurt.
• TCBY also has unique frozen yogurt delights like sundaes, banana splits, Chillers, milkshakes, parfaits, and Shivers, giving fans a variety of ways to sweeten their day.
• "At TCBY, we strive to show our customers how much we appreciate them, and there is no better day to celebrate our loyal froyo fans than National Frozen Yogurt Day," said Nelson Tejada, Chief Executive Officer of Famous Brands International.
• Today, TCBY is the only dual soft-serve and hand-scooped frozen yogurt franchise on the market, serving guests at over 250 stores system-wide.

• This year, with the extreme summer weather conditions broiling the country, and the growing concern over the rising costs of heating oil, Farmers' Almanac is releasing its winter weather forecast earlier than ever.
• The 2023 Farmers' Almanac, which hits the store shelves on August 15, is warning readers that this winter will be filled with plenty of shaking, shivering, and shoveling.
• Farmers' Almanac releases its extended winter weather forecast for 2022-2023.
• According to the Almanac, the North Central states are forecast to experience extremely cold temperatures, (possibly 40 below zero!