Sophocles – Three Plays


Translated by Gary Beck and Carl Caravana
then directed by Gary Beck


For Immediate Release

Two great tragedies and one rollicking farce are in ‘Sophocles – Three Plays’. For readers who love dramatic literature, Antigone and Electra, translated for the stage and performed Off Broadway, will please theatre lovers and readers of the classics. The ‘Searching Satyrs’, not performed for 2500 years will make audiences and readers laugh as the comic satyrs search for the lost cattle of Apollo and find Hermes who invented music. If you can’t see these plays on stage, enjoy reading them.

Sophocles – Three Plays ia 263 page book of plays in paperback  $14.99 ISBN 1915692652  published by Scimitar Edge, a division of Purple Unicorn Media. For  info or to request a review copy,  contact:   info@purpleunicornmedia.com

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Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 39 poetry collections, 14 novels, 4 short story collections, 2 collection of essays and 8 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City.

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A great interview with Sangeeta about writing, the arts, and world issues in general. 

Unveilings is a 105 page poetry book. In paperback for $14,99  ebook for $4.99 ISBN 1952909279:  Published by Winter Goose Publishing. To request a review copy, contact: jessica@wintergoosepublishing.com

https://www.amazon.com/Unvielings-Gary-Beck/dp/1952909279/

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 38 poetry collections, 14 novels, 4 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 7 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City.
 
Winter Goose Publishing is an independent publisher founded in 2011 dedicated to putting out the best literature in prose, poetry and art; covering a variety of genres. For more information go to: www.wintergoosepublishing.com

My Questions, My Answers – Gary Beck

Gary Beck has long been a contributor to Poetry Life and Times Avilla.com over the last decade. In his recent collection of poems Double Envelopment, a collection in response to harsh conditions affecting many of our people, who only want a better future for their children, to quote the author, we already feature some of his poems under the title heading Liberty in Ashes. Beck is a prolific writer, his output over the years is awe inspiring. But what is notable about all his work is his unswerving adherence to style, a particular style, which he never varies from. And this is what is, in my view, one of the most intriguing factors about his works as a poet. It is of course an impeccable style crafted with an expertise at the medium he wishes to portray. His stanzas, often minimal are succinct and pointed directly at the critique he adopts. In fact it is true of most of his works that I have read they are a socio cultural critique viewed from many different perspectives, but always with a compassionate reflection towards the underprivileged and their hardships. Reading his work you follow stanza after stanza in a crisp terse deliberation, that superficially may look simplistically written but in fact are profound and more easily accessible in the form he reaches in them for the reader. Again Beck is a citizen of the USA and much, all in fact of his work centres around its socio cultural milieu. Yet his work is wider than that and finds an appeal and reach of a common humanity that we all embrace. It is a form of poetics that is highly original in its content, because at first glance you are forced to question is this poetry or merely a narrative prose. It is only as you follow the way he develops a theme leading it in its subject matter to deeper enquiry, that you begin to see the subtlety of turn in each stanza poem, of which he seems to have become an adept of past master, rather easier to test than you might imagine, as when you would attempt to imitate one of his own renditions. Double Envelopment has recently been published and is available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1910718580

Poetry Reading 10/8/22