Upcoming: Orestes, adapted & directed by Will Hollis Snider, Cambiare Productions at Dougherty Arts Center, July 30 - August 15

Click for ALT review, August 3



UPDATE: Insite magazine interview by Brian Paul Scipione of adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, August 2009 edition

UPDATE: Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle interviews adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, July 30

UPDATE: Statesman's Jeanne Claire van Ryzin interviews adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, July 30

UPDATE: KUT-FM's John Aielli interviews Orestes cast, July 14

Received directly:

Orestes

Austin’s Cambiare Productions is proud to present a darker, more intimate vision of Euripides' classic Orestes.

Adapted and directed by Austin Critics’ Table nominee Will Hollis Snider (Sonata Escondida, Intermission, Elektra, The Nina Variations), Orestes will be performed at the Off Center (2211-A Hidalgo, Austin) Thursday through Saturday, July 30th through August 15th at 8 PM.

Tickets are priced at $15, $12 for students, and will be available at the door. Thursdays will be pay-what-you-can nights. Reservations can be made at reservations@cambiareproductions.com or at (512) 524-3761.

Snider’s adaptation takes Euripides classic, strips away the presentational storytelling of three millennia ago and reinforces the story with other classic texts including Iphigenia at Aulis, Elektra, The Libation Bearers, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Agamemnon, and The Eumenides.

The production places the title character squarely at the center of his own story. It is set days after Orestes’ murder of his own mother, Klytaimnestra, in retribution for the assassination of his father. The dark fevered hallways of Orestes' mind are explored as he seeks absolution and release from the curse of the House of Atreus.

Sprinting backwards through the events leading up to Klytaimnestra's bloody death, the production unravels before Orestes' eyes the deceit and duplicity of the last generation of the House of Atreus as the black and white of zealous revenge recedes to the greys of politics and treacherous love. Confronted with the truth, haunted by Furies and hunted by his own people, Orestes makes one last desperate stand against God and man.

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