The Penelopiad at The Chicago Fringe Festival Summer 2014
The Lost Geneva Project is honored to debut its first production, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood at the Chicago Fringe Festival in the summer of 2014.
Join the seance and raise the spirits of Penelope, the dutiful wife of wily Odysseus, and her twelve maids, who were put to death upon Odysseus' return home. Based on Margaret Atwood's novella, "The Penelopiad', Penelope takes center stage to do some of her own story-making, but must endure periodic choral interruptions and cheeky observations from her eternally wounded twelve maids. Performance Dates: Thursday, August 28th at 8:30pm Monday, September 1st at 7pm Friday, September 5th at 10pm CREATIVE: Erica Barnes (Director/Curator) Lexi Saunders (Assistant Director) Joshua Dumas (Music Composer and Music Direction) Carla Hamilton (Costume Design) CAST: Mary Jo Bolduc (Penelope) Jackie Davies (Eurycleia/Odysseus) The Twelve Maids: Jabu Mickle-Molefe, Sheena Laird, Lisa Siciliano, Lynnette Li, Danielle Trudeau, Tamara White, Katya Schexnaydre, Carolyn Sinon, Avery Glassman, Nelia Miller, Meredith Montgomery, and Genevieve Lally Knuth |
Photos by Lauren Sudbrink
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