ONE NIGHT ONLY, July 16, 2017 at 7PM
Clytemnestra will be staged at Pineapple Lab before flying off to Genova, Italy for Lunaria Teatro's "Festival In Una Notte"
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CLYTEMNESTRA
A modern look at the classical depiction of a woman scorned. A woman condemned by a jury of men, Clytemnestra faces the consequences of the murder she committed to redeem her honor. The juxtaposition of classic and modern explores themes of redemption in betrayal and triumph in tragedy. (Running time: approx 60mins)
BACKGROUND TO THE TEXT
In Classic Greek Mythology, Clytemnestra is the queen of Argos and Mycenae. She is the wife of Agamemnon with whom she has four children: Iphigenia, Chrysothemes, Elektra, and Orestes. When her sister, Helen, is brought to Troy, the Trojan War begins. Agamemnon sails for Troy to help his brother, Menelaos, win Helen back. Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to secure the success of the Greeks at Troy, a sacrifice that Clytemnestra harbors as a reason to patiently wait at home until she can exact her revenge. While waiting, she takes Agamemnon's nephew, Aegisthus as her lover. After ten years, Agamemnon returns and she kills him and his captive Trojan concubine, Cassandra. Orestes attempts to kill Clytemnestra upon the prodding of Elektra but takes pity and instead puts her before the men of the city to serve as jury who will determine her fate.
The play begins shortly before Agamemnon's return to Mycenae.
HISTORY OF THE WORK
CLYTEMNESTRA is director Kiara Pipino's adaptation using a melange of texts by Aeschylus (translated directly from Greek by Diane Rayor), Marguerite Yourcenar, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Eugene O’Neill. Devised with actor Missy Maramara in 2013, the play was first performed in Grand Valley State University, MI, then toured to Missouri State University in St. Louis, MO, and University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. In 2014, it was performed in the 4th United Solo Festival in New York, NY; 2015 in Ateneo de Manila University in Manila, Philippines; 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic hosted by Prague Shakespeare and in Siena, Italy.
ABOUT Missy Maramara
Missy holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) through the International Fulbright Scholarship Program. She teaches full-time in the Department of Fine Arts and the English Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Arts and a Master of Arts in English Literature and Cultural Studies, and where she is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in English Language and Literature. Missy has performed in the United States with theater companies such as TheatreSquared, and for festivals such as the New York United Solo Festival and the New York Improv Festival; in the Philippines such as New Voice Company and Tanghalang Pilipino, films for CinemaOne and Cinemalaya, and several television series for ABS CBN such as Lobo, Rosalka, Maging Akin Muli and Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay. She is a member of SPIT Manila.
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