Highwire Theatre Opens 'Iphigenia at Aulis' Dec 7

Highwire Theatre is proud to present and open their inaugural season with Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, directed by Jill Landaker, running from December 6 through December 16, 2007. 

"This classic Greek tragedy tells the story of the ultimate sacrifice that a family must make in the name of one man's ego. The Greek fleet assembles in the bay of Aulis prepared to launch an attack on Troy, but the wind suddenly drops and the ships stand idle. The army blames their leader who, in danger of losing his command, panics and jumps to a solution: to sacrifice his own daughter in return for a favorable wind. Utilizing the tension between a cold, harsh, propaganda-filled, war-hungry world and the women who enter it, this production explores the ease with which Clytemnestra and Iphigenia are transformed from dutiful wife and innocent child to murderer and warrior by a single event," explain press notes.

The design concept explores the repetition of this event and its characters, both contemptuous and heroic, throughout history. Iphigenia will showcase original music by Kendall Jane Meade of Mascott.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, November 12 at www.Smarttix.com or by phone at 212-868-4444. Tickets will be $18. Performance dates are as follows: Thursday, December 6 at 8PM (Special $12 Preview); Friday, December 7 at 8PM (Opening); Saturday, December 8 at 8PM; Sunday, December 9 at 2PM; Tuesday, December 11 through Saturday, December 15 at 8PM ; Sunday, December 16 at 2PM.

The cast features: Sarah Brill, Julia Davis, Tommy Dickie, David Douglas*, Jason Griffith, Eli James*, David Ian Lee*, Michelle O'Connor, Thomas Poarch*, Ninon Rogers* and Gillian Visco. (*Actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity)

Set Design by David Newell, Costume Design by David Withrow, Lighting Design by KJ Hardy, Music Direction by Evan Greene, and Dramaturgy by Jessica Corn.

For more information on Highwire Theatre, please go to www.highwiretheatre.org

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center-Milagro Theater  (107 Suffolk Street, between Delancey Street and Rivington Street). For more information please go to, www.csvcenter.com