Orestes
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Ellen Beckerman directs Charles Mee's contemporary adaptation of Euripides' Greek classic, Orestes. The play, about a son who murders his mother, incorporates references to William Burroughs, John Wayne Gacy, Bret Easton Ellis, and tabloid journalism. The production features a musical score part punk, part classical, part ska, and new wave.
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Orestes
By David Finkle · Jan 13, 2004 · New York City
Although there's nothing new about a playwright using the works of recent or ancient predecessors as source material with which liberties can be taken -- Shakespeare was certainly one of the great pur...
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