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All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production

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The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in All Our Tragic. by Zac Thompson Despite a running time that could put you at risk of deep vein thrombosis, Sean Graney's 12-hour All Our Tragic is primarily an exercise in compression. The production—which is the first to be staged at the Hypocrites' new space on the ground floor of the Den Theatre—is a loose adaptation of all 32 surviving Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.…

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