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ELEKTRA 2008
Arcata Playhouse & Four on
the Floor Theatre presents
ELEKTRA from Los Angeles theatre
The Ghost Road Company
Thu, Fri, Sat, September 25, 26, & 27 at 8:00 PM
The Arcata Playhouse and Four on the Floor Theatre
will host the Los Angeles theater The Ghost Road Company in their new adaptation
of the Greek tragedy, Elektra. The production is an ensemble devised adaptation
of The Libation Bearers which, revolves around the dynamics of family and
power and how memory can be used as both a way to comfort and to control.
Set against the backdrop of the home front after a war abroad, the piece combines
songs, text and imagery to explore both the public and private lives of a
family on the verge of collapse. Elektra is Adapted and Directed by Katharine
Noon with Music Composed by Caleb Terray. Elektra is part of Home Siege Home,
Ghost Road's adaptation of The Oresteia which the company has been working
on for over a decade and which will presented in its entirety in Spring 2009
at [Inside] the Ford in Los Angeles. The Arcata performances are supported
in part by the California Ensemble Touring Initiative a program of the Network
of Ensemble Theaters and foolsFURY Theater Company, funded by the Irvine Foundation.
For more information see www.arcataplayhouse.com or www.ghostroad.org.
Tickets are $12 general & $10 students & seniors and can be reserved
by phone at 707-822-1575
Arcata Playhouse is at 1251 9th Street (at L St.) in Arcata, CA 95521
www.arcataplayhouse.com
booking@humboldt1.com
707-668-9759
707-822-1575
Ghost Road Company also presented a preview performance of Elektra, a new ensemble-devised adaptation of the Greek tragedy on Tuesday August 12th. This was a special preview of the piece before Ghost Road took Elektra to the The NACL Catskill Festival of New Theatre in New York (http://www.nacl.org/festival_nine.htm) on August 22nd.
The Performance was at 8pm at
Loyola Marymount University's Strub Theatre at 1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, California 90045 (http://www.lmu.edu/PageFactory.aspx?PageID=69)
Elektra, an ensemble devised adaptation of The Libation Bearers,
revolves around the dynamics of family and power and how memory can be used
as both a way to comfort and to control. Set against the backdrop of the home
front after a war abroad, the piece combines songs, text and imagery to explore
both the public and private lives of a family on the verge of collapse. This
new version of Elektra is Adapted and Directed by Katharine Noon with
Music Composed by Caleb Terray and Lyrics by Katharine Noon and Ferdinand
Lewis. Elektra is part of Home Siege Home, Ghost Road's
adaptation of The Oresteia which the company has been working on for
over a decade and which will presented in its entirety in Spring 2009.
Performed by Sarah Broyles, Cathy Carlton,
Ronnie Clark, Christel Joy Johnson, Katharine Noon, Alina Phelan, Brian Weir,
and Ronald Wingate, Jr.
Set Design by Maureen Weiss;
Lighting Design by Dan Weingarten; Costume Design by Pamela Shaw; Sound Design
by Cricket Myers; Production Stage Manager Lindsey Turtletaub; Assistant Set
Designer Ashley Hasenyager; and Produced by Mark Seldis.
The performances are free and for reservations call (310) 281-8341 or email
GRC5year@aol.com.
Funded in part by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Department
of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles.
Ghost Road recently presented a work-in-progress production of Duck[t] Tape Soup - click here for the latest updates.
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