Halcyon Theatre presents Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)
Halcyon Theatre begins its fifth season with Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) written by Caridad Svich and directed by Artistic Director Tony Adams. Iphigenia...(a rave fable) will be performed at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
A rave fable inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, this play with music and video spins Iphigenia into dangerous orbit through an un-named Latin American country as she journeys through a meta-hell where she finds her body embraced and destroyed by a rock star named Achilles, and discovers she cannot escape a destiny set forth by myths ancient and modern.
"Juxtaposing the world of the rich and the poor; the living and the dead; live performance and the video; the elements combine to forge a new world that's familiar and foreign, mysterious and hyper-realistic. Caridad has an innate ability to take existing styles and conventions and spin them into something new and fascinating. It's as if she mainlines myth and creates something poetic and mythic, yet completely contemporary. Iphigenia...(a rave Fable) is a living embodiment of that." says Artistic Director and director, Tony Adams.
Performances begin February 17, and run Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 and Sundays at 2:30 through March 27, 2011. Tickets are $10-20, and are available through the Greenhouse Theater box office at greenhousetheatre.org (Direct link at http://greenhousetheater.tix.com/schedule.asp?actcode=56947) or at 773.404.7336.