Orestes 3.0: Inferno
City Garage
( 11/03/2012 - 11/25/2012 )
Running Time: 100 minutes
City Garage is proud to announce the opening of its new home at Bergamot Station Arts Center with the world premiere of Charles L. Mee's Orestes 3.0: Inferno. Mee creates a stunning new take on the Orestes myth for director Frédérique Michel and the company at City Garage. Euripides’s ancient Greek tragedy of crime piled on crime—parricide, matricide, incest—is redrawn in the hauntingly familiar terms of our contemporary world: political paralysis, purposeless wars, random acts of meaningless violence. Orestes, having been driven mad by the Furies—here, three leather-clad sexual sirens—stands trial with his sister Electra, his lover, in front of the citizens of Argos for the murder of their mother, the betrayer Clytemnestra. Menelaus, their Uncle, and a political blow-hard with ambitions of his own, is too cowardly to intervene. Sentenced to death, Orestes and Electra turn kidnapping terrorists and try to kill Helen, who disappears by magic. Apollo, the god of disguise and subterfuge, is toying with them all: these humans are his amusements; their ambitions are absurd; their end is only emptiness and death. Greek tragedy meets edgy contemporary thought in this bold and original new work, both tragic and darkly comic, powerfully sexual and poetic.
Tickets
This production closed on 11/25/2012
Schedule
Friday/Saturday 8pm, Sunday 4pm
Venue Information
City Garage at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., Building T1, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (map)
Box Office 310 - 4539939
Free parking on site
Directors / Designers
Charles Duncombe Producer
Justin Bardales Composer
Frederique Michel Director
Charles Duncombe Scenic Designer
Josephine Poinsot Costume Designer
Charles Duncombe Lighting Designer
Paul Rubenstein Sound Designer
Jerry Charlson Press Agent
Justin Bardales Musician: Percussion
Justin Bardales Musician: Drums
Samantha Geraci-Yee Singer
Heather Pasternak Assistant Director
Taylor Thomas Assistant Director
Cast
Megan Kim Electra
Johanny Paulino Orestes
Mitchell Colley The Dreamer
Nathan Dana Sophocles
Justin Davanzo Pylades
Erol Dolen Apollo
Samantha Geraci-Yee Clio
Leah Harf Alekto
Katrina Nelson Helen
Mariko Oka Magoera
Megan Penn Tisiphone
Daryl Roach Menelaus
Bo Roberts Tyndareus
Please claim your half-price tickets at the box office no later than 15 minutes before curtain
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Reviews
Stage and Cinema (read review)"A work of passion, intelligence, and mischief.Mee and Michel collaborate with graceful eclecticism" - Pauline Adamek
ArtsinLA.com (read review)"This production reminds us how modern the Greeks were." - Staff Writer
Hollywood Reporter (read review)"Bold and vigorous...trenchantly relevant...striking, stylish, and focussed." - Staff Writer
LA Times (read review)"A Visual Feast!....Michel stages one of the year's most startling tableaux:>' - Charlotte Stoudt