THE_OPER& Thursday, March 8-Saturday, March 10 Various times, $10–$28 von der Heyden Studio Theater, Durham www.dukeperformances.duke.edu In Poetics, Aristotle defines tragedy as “the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude, complete in itself.” The operative emotion in tragedy, he explains, is the strangely pleasurable mix of pity and fear we […]
