Renegade Classic Theatre Presents A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical
Renegade Classic Theatre seeks to produce works that are foreign. Foreign in their origin or their content. We celebrate and give voice to the lesser known and voiceless.
RCT seeks to bridge the gap between the known and the unknown.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound follows the Titan, Prometheus who has been chained to a rock as punishment for helping out man. The mighty god, Zeus destined Prometheus to endure torture from an eagle pecking at his liver for all eternity.
Prometheus, being a fore-thinker knows how Zeus will meet his demise and his freedom can be granted by telling the secret. Zeus sends his minions to try and extract the secret from Prometheus, but the Titan claims fate had determined against such a task. This classic Greek tale focuses on Prometheus wrongly punished for his actions and Zeus' unwillingness to budge.
A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical riffs on Aeschylus' classic work by setting it in 1930's Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl Era. Prometheus follows suit like other folk heroes of the time such as Tom Joad, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. The production is greatly influenced by Guthrie's life and music, Steinbeck's portrayal of America, and the Dust Bowl photographs of Dorothea Lange.
Michael Durkin returns to Renegade Classic Theatre, having previously directed and adapted, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, he has recently worked at BCKSEET Productions as dramaturg for Losing the Shore, Director of The Bridge Club at Society Hill Playhouse, and Assistant Director for Blasted at Luna Theater Company.The cast features Griffin Stanton-Ameisen (Prometheus) recently of Act II Playhouse's The Tempest and understudy for 39 Steps at the Walnut Street Theatre; Kate Black Regan (Io) who performed in Idiopathic Rediculopathy Constortium's The Empire Builders, Sean Bradley (Oceanus) currently appearing in As You Like It at Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre; Eric
Scotolati (Hermes) currently playing Guildenstern in Curio Theatre's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; and Karina Croskrey (Bia) who just appeared in Ego Po Classic Theatre's Artuad Unbound.
The facts:
A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical
The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse
507 South 8th
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Thu May 26th
- 7 PM (Preview)
Fri May 27th
- 8 PM (Opening)
Sat May 28th
- 8 PM
Thu June 2nd
- 8 PM
Fri June 3rd
- 8 PM
Sat June 4th
- 8 PM
Sun June 5th
- 2 PM
Thu June 9th
- 8 PM
Fri June 10th
- 8 PM
Sat June 11th
- 8 PM (Closing)
Tickets can be purchased at door at Society Hill Playhouse, or over the phone 215-923-0210
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for students, seniors, and under 30. (Prices include a free drink).
A Prometheus Bound: A Folk Musical
Production Team:
Adapted and Directed by Michael Durkin
Music Direction: Tabitha Allen
Scenic Design: Gregory Scott Campbell
Costume Design: Kat O'Brien
Lighting Design: James Jackson
Renegade Classic Theatre Staff: Michael Durkin, Eric Scotolati, Meredith Sonnen, Tommy Strawser, James Stover, and Trick Sullivan.
For more information: www.renegadeclassictheatre.tumblr.com, or renegadeclassictheatre@gmail.com.
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