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Composer Nico Muhly, Greek drama, Four Corners

Arts news, including classical composer Nico Muhly, the lasting appeal of Greek drama and a review of South African film Four Corners. With Kirsty Lang.

The classical composer Nico Muhly has worked with Philip Glass, written film scores including The Reader, collaborated with Bj枚rk and Antony and the Johnsons, and written a full-scale opera, Two Boys. Muhly discusses Sentences, his new song cycle on Alan Turing with a libretto by Adam Gopnik.

Recently Kristin Scott Thomas has played Electra, Juliette Binoche, Antigone and Helen McCrory, Medea. Tonight The Oresteia opens at the Almeida Theatre in London - one of four productions of the trilogy this year - which opens a festival of Greek drama at the theatre. Kirsty Lang talks to Rupert Goold, the artistic director responsible for the festival, Blanche McIntyre, who will be directing The Oresteia in Manchester, and Paul Cartledge, the distinguished scholar of Greek drama, about the power of these plays written millennia ago and their relevance today.

A new film Four Corners is a drama set against a backdrop of gang culture and violence in South Africa's Cape Flats. Writer Lindsay Johns reviews.

And Kevin LeGendre considers the art of the spoken interaction between the musical performer and the audience in a live show.

Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly will conduct , performed by Iestyn Davies and the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican Centre in London on Saturday 6 June.聽

Image main and left: Photo credit Matthew Murphy.聽

Greek drama

Greek drama

Oresteia, Bakkhai, and Medea will all be performed at the Almeida Theatre in London this year as part of their season.

will be at HOME in Manchester from 23 October to 13 November 2015.

Image: Eve Benioff Salama, Lia Williams, Ilan Galkoff and Angus Wright in Oresteia at the Almeida. Photo credit Manuel Harlan.

Four Corners

Four Corners

is in cinemas now, certificate 15.

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Presenter Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest Nico Muhly
Interviewed Guest Rupert Goold
Interviewed Guest Blanche McIntyre
Interviewed Guest Paul Cartledge
Interviewed Guest Lindsay Johns
Interviewed Guest Kevin LeGendre
Producer Jerome Weatherald

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