Past Performances

Listings and Reviews of Performances from 4 January 2003

Listings are published in reverse order of date of first night.*

Lysistrata by Aristophanes
 30 May - 9 June, 2003. Wednesday - Saturday 8 p.m. Sunday Matinee 3 p.m.
The Little Theater Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Street, Seattle, Wa, USA.
Suessical spin on the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Tensions mount as the women bar the gates, and leave the men to decide for themselves where their priorities lie. Come and see the playing of a tale so tall it can hardly be believed.
Tickets: $15 /$10 student or senior with ID. Ticket Window (206) 325-6500 / www.ticketwindowonline.com
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Hecuba by Euripides - A Reading
26 May 2003, Memorial Day. 7.30pm, The Sixth @ Penn Theatre, 3704 6th Avenue in Hillcrest, San Diego, California, USA
In observance of Memorial Day, Grass Roots Greeks, the San Diego theater troupe dedicated to ancient Greek tragedy, will be reading Hecuba. Part of its regular series of readings on the last Monday of every month at 6th @ Penn theatre. Euripides' play is an early treatment of the subject to which the playwright would return some nine years later in his classic The Trojan Women. Set in the aftermath of the fall of the city of Troy, Hecuba deals with subjects as familiar to us as today's headlines: how is justice administered in a war-torn capitol? What is the balance between justice and politics in the post-war struggles that consume both the vanquished and the victors? In such an environment, how does one honor the dead of both sides? In the U. S., Memorial Day is about honoring all the American soldiers killed in the country's wars from the beginning of our history. We felt that Euripides' lesser known play about the fall of Troy would be a fitting way for us to contribute to the day's events, to enable all of us to think and feel deeply about both our past wars and our current ones, as they affect both our own soldiers and the people of rest of the world.
Contacts: Linda Castro/ David Cohen, 3704 6th Avenue, San Diego 92103, Tel. (USA) 619-688-9210. E-mail: grassrootsgreeks@cox.net
Reservations: Tel. (USA) 619-688-9210. Minimum Donation: $5 (Our forty-nine seats go fast!)
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The Bacchae by Euripides
17 April 2003. 11pm, Sonar Nightclub, 66 Water Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Screaming Weenie Productions. Director: Ilena Lee Cramer. Cast: Maggie Blue O'Hara, Rachel Flood, Glen Garenther, Troy Jackson, Shane L. Koyczan, Christine Stoddard.
An electronic opera. This interactive and original adaptation of Euripides tragedy is a classic tale of the orgiastic and animal vs. the restraint and order of society set in modern day context - the club scene. Backed by driving house beats compossed abd live-mized by Tracey Draper and featuring some of Vancouver's best underground MC's, R&B and spoken word performers
Tickets: $25-28. Contact Tatiana Nemchin, Wing Walker Entertainment. Tel. (604) 724 0630 / E-mail: getfamous@shaw.ca.
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Orestes 2.0 by Charles L. Mee
13 - 27 April 2003 (Previews 13 and 15 April, 2003). Penthouse Theater, University of Washington Campus
UW School of Drama. Director: Rebecca Brown.
Ancient Greek mythology juxtaposed with contemporary culture brings Euripides' tragedy right to our doorstep. Borrowing text from an eclectic variety of 20th-century sources, from Soap Opera digest to William S. Burroughs, popular historian, award-winning playwright Charles Mee's theatrical montage is a fresh and disturbing look at the desperate hope that a god will descend to erase our present horror.
Tickets $8 / $12, Students $7. Previews $5. Box Office: UW Arts Ticket Office, 4001 University Way NE. Tel. (206) 543-4880
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The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona (after Sophocles' Antigone)
13 April 2003. 3pm, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
Fugard is South Africa's best known playwright. The play, devised by Kani and Ntshona with Fugard, is about two prisoners in a maximum security prison on an island (the same one in which Nelson Mandela was incarcerated) who are putting on Sophocles' Antigone for their fellow prisoners.
Group tickets $20
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The Trojan Women by Euripides
24 - 30 March 2003, 8pm. Studio 301, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Production by the Juilliard School drama division.
Tickets: $15 and $9. Tel. (212) 769-7406.
See http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/569journal_story_0209.asp
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JOCASTA by Richard Schechner
20 March - 6 April, 2003, 7.30pm. First Floor, La MaMa, 74A East 4th Street, New York, USA
A new work from Richard Schechner.
Tickets: (212) 475-7710 / www.lamama.org
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Dido and Aeneas by Purcell / Tate (Virgil's Aeneid)
18 - 19 & 21 - 22 March, 2003, 7.30 p.m.
Middleton Hall, University of Hull, Kingston Upon Hull, UK
Tickets: £6.00, Concessions £4.00
Tickets: (01482) 466141
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Lysistrata by Aristophanes
3 March 2003
The Lysistrata Project: readings of Aristophanes' Lysistrata will take place throughout the world as part of a statement against the war in Iraq. Includes a reading at Barnard, and a major stars-studded reading somewhere in New York City. Further information at www.LysistrataProject.com.
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The Odes of Horace
17 February 2003, 8 p.m.
Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street at Lexington Avenue, New York, USA
A reading by poets of their translations of Horace on the occasion of the publication of Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets, edited by J.D. McClatchy. Readings by: Rachel Hadas, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Marie Ponsot and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Tickets: $16.00. Tel. (212) 415-5500.
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Helen Queen of Sparta by Theodora Skipitares
13 - 23 February 2003
Annex Theatre, La MaMa, 74A East 4th Street, New York, USA
Conceived, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares
Music: Arnold Dreyblatt. Additional music: Tim Schellenbaum. Lighting: Pat Dignan. Dramaturgy: Andrea Balisvideo: Kay Hines. Technical Design: David Adams, Michael Kelly & Jane Catherine Shaw. Choreography: Alissa Mello.
Cast: Billy Clark, Michael Kelly, Chris Maresca, Alissa Mello, DJ Potter, Sarah Provost, Erin Ruddell, Mariana Sadovska & Amanda Villalobos
Thursday to Sunday 7.30 p.m. Sunday matinee 2.30 p.m.
Tickets: $20 / Concessions: $15. Tel.(212) 475-7710 / www.lamama.org.
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Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (Virgil's Aeneid)
10, 14, 17, 22 February & 11, 15, 20, 24, 27 March 2003
The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Production: Francesca Zambello. Set Designer: Maria Bjørnson. Costume Designer: Anita Yavich. Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls. Choreographer: Doug Varone. Stage Director: Francesca Zambello. Conductor: James Levine.
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Elena Zaremba, Ben Heppner, Dwayne Croft, Robert Lloyd.
Tickets: (212) 362-6000 / www.metopera.org
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Dido (& Aeneas) by Roxane Heinze and Cara Reichel (Virgil's Aeneid)
8, 10, 13-15, 20-22, 26-28 February & 1 March at 8 p.m.
9, 16, 23 February & 2 March at 3 p.m.
West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 West 86th Street, New York, USA
Prospect Theater Company. Producing Artistic Director: Cara Reichel. Managing Director: Melissa Huber.
New music and arrangements by Daniel Feyer, Richard Hip-Flores, and Peter Mills. Designer: Rachel Baron. Lighting: Ji-youn Chang. Assistant Designer: Robert McAlpin.
Cast: Jacquelyn Baker, Jennifer Blood, Megan Cramer, Jeremiah Griffin, Kevin Haden, Anthony Holds, Jennifer Kidwell, Erin Logemann, Courter Simmons, Esther Triggs, Shelia Vasan, Simone Zamore.
Dido (& Aeneas) is adapted from Henry Purcell's and Nahum Tate's opera, Dido and Aeneas, and the works of Virgil, Ovid, Marlowe, Chaucer, and others.
Directions: take the 1/2 subway to 86th street.
Tickets: $15 / Students $12. Tel.(212)206-1515 / www.smarttix.com.
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Hippolytus by Euripides
12 - 29 January 2003
Sixth@Penn, San Diego, USA
Sundays 7 p.m. Mondays to Wednesdays 7.30 p.m..
Production web-site: http://www.sixthatpenn.com/hippolytos.htm
Read a review by cast-member David S. Cohen.
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The Children of Herakles by Euripides
4 - 25 January 2003.
American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Peter Sellars, director.
Read Didaskalia reviews by Eva Stehle and James T. Svendsen
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