Agamemnon in NYC!

[Alec]

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
And The Eleventh Hour Theatre Co. present

Aeschylus'
AGAMEMNON
in a new translation
by Alexander Harrington
with original music by Michael Sirotta

NOVEMBER 12TH THROUGH 29TH
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 & Sunday at 2:30
(no performance on Thanksgiving,
Thursday, November 26th)
AT LA MAMA
74 A East 4th Street,
(between 2nd Avenue & Bowery)
New York, NY

Tickets go on sale October 12th -- $18 ($13 for students and seniors)
To buy tickets go to http://lamama.org/ or call 212-475-7710

In the translation, Harrington adheres as closely as possible to the
original Greek meters; he is also adhering to strophic structure,
metrically matching each line of the antistrophes to the corresponding
lines in the strophes. Harrington and Sirotta are using the original
meters as a guide to what portions of the text should spoken, spoken
with musical accompaniment, or sung.

Costume designer Rebecca Bernstein is basing the costumes on those
depicted on the Pronomos vase (which probably shows the performers in
a satyr play) and the Andromeda vase (which may depict a scene from
Euripides’ Andromeda). Ms. Bernstein will be using make-up as a happy
medium that has the sculptural severity of masks and makes cross-
gender casting easier while allowing for facial expression. Mr.
Harrington is following Athenian practice in casting three actors to
play all the principal roles. The actors will be of both genders,
and, in a variation on the Athenian practice of having men play women,
Mr. Harrington has cast actress Jessica Crandall as both Kassandra and
the Herald . The production will have a chorus of twelve (as is
postulated for the first performance of the play), made up of both men
and women, but all of them playing the male Argive elders.