The third part of his Imperial Dreams Trilogy, Charles Mee describes Orestes 2.0 as ""The Euripides after-war play, re-set in the world today, in which the veterans return from the Trojan War, to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home with them and rendered their homeland to ruins forever.""
Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee is a postmodern collage-adaptation of Euripides' Orestes that assembles and re-appropriates found texts in order to fuse together our past with our present and hold a penetrating and often-humorous mirror up to our fractured and dysfunctional culture. This production locates the action in the proverbial "Hotel California" immortalized by The Eagles—a Southern Californian institutional nightmare where ""you can check out any time you like but you can never leave." The production interrogates the coercive power structures that govern our lives, our complicity with them, and how, if possible, we can escape.
Admission/Cost: - [CAMPUS MAP]
Dates and times:
Wednesday, February 26 - 7:30 PM
Friday, February 28 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 29 - 2:00 PM
Saturday, February 29 - 7:30 PM
Friday, March 6 - 7:30 PM
Friday, March 7 - 7:30 PM
Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee is a postmodern collage-adaptation of Euripides' Orestes that assembles and re-appropriates found texts in order to fuse together our past with our present and hold a penetrating and often-humorous mirror up to our fractured and dysfunctional culture. This production locates the action in the proverbial "Hotel California" immortalized by The Eagles—a Southern Californian institutional nightmare where ""you can check out any time you like but you can never leave." The production interrogates the coercive power structures that govern our lives, our complicity with them, and how, if possible, we can escape.
Admission/Cost: - [CAMPUS MAP]
Dates and times:
Wednesday, February 26 - 7:30 PM
Friday, February 28 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 29 - 2:00 PM
Saturday, February 29 - 7:30 PM
Friday, March 6 - 7:30 PM
Friday, March 7 - 7:30 PM
