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Iphigenia 2.0 Reading

Posted on December 17, 2007 in readings

Charles Mee

IPHIGENIA 2.0
By Charles Mee
Directed by Hannah Hessel

Monday, December 17th 8pm
H Street Playhouse
1365 H Street NE, Washington DC

FREE ADMISSION, Donations accepted.

Featuring Forum company members Patrick Bussink, Alexander Strain, Brent Lowder, Michael Dove and Fiona Blackshaw,
Also with Lee Liebeskind, Helen Pafumi, Nigel Reed, Gwen Grastorf, Jonathan Church, Simone Zvi and more.

As a part of Forum's new OpenForum program we are excited to present a reading of Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 this Monday, December 17. This reading is a part of a series that expands on our current production of ANTIGONE, and along with post show discussions help to create an inclusive theatrical experience. The play by Euripides, set in the world today, in which a great imperial power steps into the world to go to war--taking an action so wrong that it sets the empire on the road to complete self-destruction. Proving, as Agamemnon himself says on the brink of the Trojan war, "we see from the histories of empires that none will last forever and all are brought down finally not by others but by themselves."

For an interview with Charles Mee about the play, visit Studio 360.

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For those of you who'd like to read the script, vist Mee's site at:
http://charlesmee.com/html/iphigenia.html

There, you can find his other plays, as well.
--Michael
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Just a quick comment to say that the 4 million or so Washington area residents who did not show up for Monday night's reading made a mistake in judgment. The reading itself was, as you would expect, very well done; as Lee says, the post show discussion was provocative, and a good time was had by all.

Chuck Mee takes the classical Iphigenia and intersperses within it snippets from (more or less) parallel events at different times throughout history. He invites companies to add and subtract as they wish.

I was intrigued by his use of George Washington's rules for proper conduct as recited by the chorus/soldiers. A non-musical choral reading of his entire list of Washington's do's and don'ts would also make for a nice evening, especially in Washinton.
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