As a boy Australian Simon Stone watched his father die, and his body of work in the theatre carthartically confronts similarly bleak tragedies.
Stone is directing Medea at the Brooklyn Academy of Music until February 23. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times
A woman, abandoned by her husband, murders her children. A man, conspiring with his sister, stabs his mother. A young woman slits her throat with her lover's razor. A girl shoots herself. A boy shoots himself. A child walks into the sea.
Stone in New York in December. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times
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