Student Experimental Theater Organization (SETO) presents
"The Oresteia"
by Euripides, Translation by Ted Hughes
Directed by Ally Butler
November 6, 7, 8 (Times TBA)
Presented live outdoors on SIUE campus
A family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry. The Oresteia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he returns from exile to do so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of the court of Athens.
"Hamlet and Gertrude: A Story Rewrit'"
Adapted from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" by Tucker Greer and Ethan Sproat
Directed by Tucker Greer
March 31, April 1, 2, 3 @ 7:30 and April 4 @2:00
Presentation Mode TBA
Life and death are separated with a barrier: a bridge that unites the souls of the living and souls of the damned. As Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet comes to an end, the eyes of Hamlet and Gertrude open to reveal an inevitable new world everyone will soon visit. This is a place where the solid flesh melts and memories arise to reveal the truth and the lies. The mistakes of the living through the frames of the dead are relieved; however, the dead must stay dead, and the choices made in their living lives continue.
