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December 17, 2007, 8pm
Staged reading of Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles Mee
Directed by Hannah Hessel
H Street Playhouse
1365 H Street NE, Washington DC
Featuring Forum company members Alexander Strain, Fiona Blackshaw,
Patrick Bussink, and Brent Lowder
Also with Nigel Reed, Lee Liebeskind, Gwen Grastorf, and Simone Zvi
This reading is part of a series that expands on our December
production of Antigone and, along with postshow discussions, helps
create an inclusive theatrical experience.
The classic play by Euripides has been re-set in today's world. A great
imperial power goes to war--taking an action so wrong that it sets the
empire on the road to complete self-destruction. The play proves, 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."
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