Alcestis at San Francisco Playhouse

Death comes for Admetus, and when his beloved wife Alcestis agrees to die for him, Hercules, his old lead-guitarist from the burnt out rock band, the Argonauts, defies the Gods to save her. Fresh from the Off-Broadway opening of Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, Aaron Loeb spins his anachronistic rock’n’roll myth inspired by the great play of Euripides. The twelve chores become twelve steps as our over-the-hill superhero comes to the rescue.