Kenyon College Dramatic Club to present Euripedes' Electra

GAMBIER, Ohio (October 13, 2003) The Kenyon College Dramatic Club will present three performances of the Greek tragedy, Electra, at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31, and Saturday November 1, and at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 1, in the College's Bolton Theater. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for senior citizens, $2 for non-Kenyon students and children under twelve; and $2.50 for groups of ten or more. The box office is open from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday during the week before the performance and one hour before each performance. You may call 740-427-5546 for additional information.

Electra is Euripedes' version of the ancient myth about the revenge that Orestes and his sister, Electra, take upon their mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. The subject was a popular one with Greek playwrights.

According to director and Professor of Drama Thomas Turgeon, Euripedes is often called the most modern of these playwrights because his version of the story is so skeptical of conventional pieties and because, in its use of detail, it suggests modern sensibilities and psychologies for these mythical characters. "In that spirit, I have written a new adaptation of the text, based on English translations, so that it can be plausibly staged in contemporary dress," says Turgeon.

This production will mark the Kenyon debut of Associate Professor of Drama William Marshall as scene designer.