Herakles

Option5ive and chashama present
Herakles

by Euripides

Prologue: Herakles5 by Heiner M Iler

November 30 - December 16, 2000

chashama 111 Underground Theater
111 West 42nd Street
New York, NY

Directed by Jay Scheib
Dramaturgy: Laura Butchy, Michelle Shafer, Caroline Reich
Sound & Video Design: Leah Gelpe
Scene Design: Suzanne Wang
Lighting: Jeremy Morris
Clothes: Anonymous
Performers: Jennifer Bainbridge, Martin Berrymen*, Scott Dixon, Krassin Iordanov, Aimee McCormick, Maria Markosov, Barbara Sauermann, April Sweeney, Mailinda Walford*

A site-specific production of the classical Greek play.

"Making use of small, poetic, video loops, digitally sampled and manipulated sounds, found sounds, music, puppets and objects, this project, with Aimee McCormick as the hero Herakles, is a small and persistent inquiry into the complex sets of relationships in which we live our lives: The relationships between human beings, the environment, the faith in gods, and the endless processes which conspire to hold them.The combination of these two texts, supplemented by an operatic movement from HŠandel's "The Choices of Hercules," and an epic poem from Pindar, provides a critical double and distancing necessary to see the Hero with the wobbly legs, the Hero who doesn't want to take part anymore."





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