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CounterBalance Theater's Iliad: After-Panels with Humanities Faculty

The Iliad: Menin (Rage)
Text by Homer with translation by Stephen Mitchell
Annie Loui, Director and Choreographer
October 13 – 16, 2016
Winifred Smith Hall

This dramatic movement piece is constructed in the style of CounterBalance Theatre, in which actors play multiple characters, as well as animals and architecture. Physical depictions of gods, monsters and nature personified are embodied by the ensemble of performers who play multiple speaking parts and all of the movement roles. Taking place ten years into the Trojan War, this is a story about reputation and honor, and how they create the ultimate THEM and US: a world in which friends and allies become enemies, and even the immortals come down to earth to take sides.

After-Panels with Humanities faculty and the artistic team after the Saturday performances

Oren Izenberg (English)
following the 2pm Saturday Matinee, October 15

Zina Giannopoulou (Classics) and Andrew Zizzos (Classics)
Following the Saturday 8pm performance, October 15

Co-sponsored by Humanities Core and the Sawyer Seminar on War