Perloff Set to Direct New Translation of ELEKTRAN at Getty Villa; Other Works Announced

The Getty Villa Theatre Lab Series has announced its lineup for the coming season, which will include a staging of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Sophocles' Elektran, directed by Carey Perloff. The production is scheduled to run from September 2 to October 2, 2010.

Other lab series works include:

Big Dance Theater: Euripides' Alkestis

Date: Friday-Sunday, February 19-21, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday
Admission: Tickets $7. Tickets Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Get Tickets" button below.

Two acclaimed creative forces-renowned translator Anne Carson and the daring, experimental Big Dance Theater-meet in the creation of a new movement-theater version of Alkestis. Euripides' genre-defying play, in which Herakles wrestles Death for the soul of an ideal woman, is one of the playwright's strangest and most beautiful works.

Proyecto Azteca

Date: Friday-Sunday, May 14-16, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday
Admission: Tickets $7. Tickets available beginning Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
Artists from California Institute of the Arts' Center for New Performance present a multimedia tapestry of texts in Spanish, English, and Nahuatl, recalling and reflecting upon the moment of encounter between Aztec culture and European invaders.

Complements the exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, on view March 24-July 5, 2010, at the Getty Villa.

Euripides' Helen
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, presented by Playwrights' Arena

Date: Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Saturday
Admission: Free; a ticket is required. Tickets available beginning Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

Euripides' rarely performed comic play is based on a dazzling and outrageous conceit: that Spartan Helen has passed the entire Trojan War living chastely in Egypt, hidden and protected by the gods, and that only a counterfeit phantom of herself was abducted to Troy, thus provoking ten years of calamity for both sides.

Seven years after the war's end, Helen remains stranded in Egypt, the most hated women in the world, but oblivious to her infamy and ignorant of the war's outcome and the fate of her husband, Menelaus. The action of the play unfolds on the day that word reaches Helen of what has transpired in Troy, and that the shipwrecked Menelaus is washed up in rags on the Egyptian shore.

Troubadour Theater Company

Aristophanes' The Frogs
Directed by Matt Walker, presented by Troubadour Theater Company

Date: Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, 2010
Time: 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Saturday
Admission: Free; a ticket is required. Tickets available beginning Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.

The playwright Aristophanes lived to see Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-his three older contemporaries-dead and buried. In this typically irreverent satire, Dionysus, the god of theater, depressed by the state of the Athenian stage, resolves to restore literary excellence to the seasonal dramatic festivals. Descending to Hades with his slave Xanthius, Dionysus vows to return to Earth with the greatest dead playwright of them all.

But just who is the greatest playwright? And how will the god of wine convince the powerful lord of the Underworld to release the famous deceased author? Hilarity ensues, as a large chorus of singing frogs becomes involved...

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