Orestes 2.0

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T02143162738 (GSMD05) Producer Guildhall School of Music and Drama (3rd year drama students). Director Daniel Kramer. Design Becs Andrews. Lighting David Howe.
31 Jan 05 to 3 Feb 05	Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L277440864

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Play :: Charles L. Mee, America's most controversial political playwright, takes Euripides' classical Greek play and electrifies it with fragments of the modern world - excerpts from beauty magazines, testimonials from soldiers tortured in the war, teen magazine horoscopes, radio travel programmes, sex addict confessions, and even a bit of critical analysis on the soaps. The result: Electra and Orestes drowning in a pool of blood, surrounded by a world of people unequipped to hear, let alone aid, their struggle for justice. And just where is Apollo these days? It's physical; it's sexual; it's quirky; it's trashy; it's raw; It's now.

Author	Euripides
Adapted by	Charles L. Mee