GREEK PLAYS

We are a bunch of people, clustered around and about the Montclair State University Classics and General Humanities Department, who aim to offer students and campus community members (including non-Theater folks; we are all amateurs!) a chance to present ancient Greek plays to the community, performing outdoors in the MSU Amphitheater, relatively unadapted (but in English translation), including music and dance. Although we also love many of the adaptations performed by many artists, we think the plays themselves contain stories and poetry that are truly surprising and interesting, and don't need to be heavily adapted or modernized to be compelling theater. The issues they address are relevant to today - social and class injustices, the status of women within a patriarchal society, the role of outsiders and immigrants within a democratic society, the problems of familial power, love, hate, and friendship... We began performing Greek plays in the MSU Amphitheater three years ago, with..