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Electra By Euripides

ARTISTIC STAFF Director ........................................................................................................................ Sonja Moser • Scenic Designer ............................................................................................................ Alexander K • Costume Designer .............................................................................................. Jesika Wendy Wallace Lighting Designer .................................................................................................... Matthew Schauer Original Music and Sound Design by ...................................................... Jesse Cannady and the Ensemble Hair and Makeup Designer .................................................................................................. Tori Allen Dramaturg ...................................................................................................................... David Fisch Stage Manager ............................................................................................................ Nicole Pressner

CAST (In Order of Appearance)

Electra ...................................................................................................................... Emily Nichelson Orestes .................................................................................................................. Matthew Hallahan Old Man ........................................................................................................................ Dean Brown Farmer .................................................................................................................... Matthew Bausone Pylades ............................................................................................................................ Danny Rice Chorus Women .................................................................... Lily Maclin, Lauren Pfeiffer, Abby Vombrack Castor ...................................................................................................................... Evan Henderson Polydeuces ................................................................................................................ Keith Jackewicz Clytemnestra .................................................................................................................. Caitlin Boho Messenger .................................................................................................................... Russell Krantz Slave Girls ...................................................................... Abigail Brennan, Kelsey Bunner, Kadyn Walther Farmer's Servant .......................................................................................................... Arif Yampolsky Aegisthus .................................................................................................................. Terrence Budnik

EURIPIDES,COMPLrn GREEK TllAGEDIES VOLUME 4. "Eedran by Euripides (complete play),

translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule pp. 397 to 454 University of Chicago Press

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DRAMATURGY NOTES In undentanding the dramatic action of Euripides' Bectra, it's important to examine the family history of Electra's forebearen, but most importantly, her father. During the beginning of the Trojan War, Agamemnon, king of Argos and husband to Clytemnestra, sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Agamemnon had incurred the wrath of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, by saying that he was a greater skilled hunter. Infuriated, Artemis introduced a plague and a lack of wind to keep the Greek ships from sailing. In order to appease the goddess, a prophet named Calchas told Agamemnon that he would have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. Thus, Agamemnon saalficed his daughter, Artemis was pleased, and the ships set sail. In an act of revenge for her daugh• ter's death, Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon when he returned from the war, with the help of Aegisthus, her lover. When the play begins, Eectra has been in mourning for the death of her father for seven years.

Greek tragedies are dassically structured formulaically, alternating action (episodes) with choral commentary (odes). Consistently, the action of the plot Is the downfall of the protagonist(s), due to a tragic flaw or misstep that is embedded in their character and the very fiben of their moral

being. Mortals must learn in the end that they cannot escape the will of the gods or the fates (although Euripides seems to inject this moral with some skeptldsm). The Chorus could either sympathize with and/or ridicule the protagonist, depending upon the play, context or interpretation. They acted as Muses, singing tales of heroes, battles, landscapes, cities, gods, nymphs and death.

Traditionally, the audiences of Greece would have already known the outcome of the piece, and would go to see theatre to gain feelings of fear and anxiety for the tragic character while watching how they slowly unravel and spiral down into impeding doom. Interestingly enough, those same feelings still come from viewing these stories today. The development of the dramatic action, of the characten, and the storytelling is able to resonate a message of anxiety, fear, and sympathy Into Its audiences. This interpretation of the dusic Greek text that you're about to see keeps true to these concepts, but allows room for modernization, and an expansive sense of storytelling, that modifies and heightens the feelings of watching a dassical Greek tragedy.

David f'11ch, Dramaturg

DIRECTOR'S NOTES Ancient Greek audiences were often very familiar with the stories upon which the plays they viewed were based. In the case of Electra, they would also be familiar with other plays that treated upon the same story (The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus and Electra, by Sophocles). The audience therefore paid particular attention to the innovations made - or liberties taken - by the playwright in the story's telling. For e"ample, both Aeschylus and Sophocles set their story in front of a palace; Euripides sets his before a peasant's hut. The meaning of the play was derived from these interpretive strokes. While we cannot know exactly how much or in what way Euripides played with the history of his audience's understanding of this story,

or how his innovations would have been topical to the year in which the play was performed - so many mythic and cultural references being lost to us through time -what is clear from those we can comprehend, is that a certain irreverence for the conventions of Greek drama, his fellow playwrights and even for the gods runs boldly though the veins of this play. We have tried to capture that spirit in our telling, and hope that you find our production as surprising to your expectations of classical Greek drama as Euripides' version of Electra might have been for his audiences over two thousand years ago.

Sonja Moser, Director

SPECIAL THANKS David Adjmi, Michael Davis, Bill & Finnegan McGuinness, Michael Vetere, James Wa_goner,

Darby Wilde, Sara Semonis, ISU School of Theatre Faculty and Staff, ISU College of Fme Arts Faculty and Staff.

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