An impressionistic tale set during the prelude to a movie-theater shooting, "Night" is loosely based on the tragedy at a multiplex in Aurora, Colo., in 2012 during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" that claimed the lives of 12 people.
It was easier to mourn him based on the tragedy of being stricken with a degenerative disease that had the potential to eat away at his body and his great mind than it was to consider the anguish he suffered that apparently compelled him to take his life.
"Oedipus Rex" (1926-27), based on the Sophocles tragedy, is an unconventional dramatic work.
"Prometheus Bound," based on the Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, will open in March in a production with text and lyrics from Mr. Sater and music by Serj Tankian, from the band System of a Down.
On the theater front the Luminato-commissioned "One Thousand and One Nights," produced by the London company Dash Arts, will have its premiere alongside another commissioned piece, "Andromache," an adaptation of Racine's 1667 play (based on the Euripides tragedy), about the aftermath of the Trojan War.
Still, when the National Symphony Orchestra opens its subscription season at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, among the works will be what is described as a new performing version of Beethoven's sketches for "Macbeth," some eight minutes of orchestral music pieced together from Beethoven's ideas for an opera based on the Shakespeare tragedy.
Most rockumentaries or biographies documenting that era, like the VH-1 Behind the Music series, are heavily based on the drama and tragedies within the band or its members.
Martin Sheen will also star in Baltic Storm, which is based on the real-life tragedy in the 1990s when Scandinavian passenger ferry Estonia sank en route to Finland with the loss of over 1,000 lives.
So far, most government development policies related to pastoralism in Africa have been based on the paradigm of a Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin 1968), considering pastoralism as a form of land use that is mismanaging dryland resources and being responsible for land degradation through overgrazing of communal rangelands (Ayantunde et al. 2011).
Given the number of comedians who work out new material every night all over the country, it probably wasn't the first joke based on the Aurora theater-shooting tragedy.
Against its wishes, his family agreed to support him in a Parisian garret while he wrote a tragedy based on the life of Oliver Cromwell.
