Not Man Apart (NMA), the Los Angeles-based physical theatre ensemble since 2004, presents John Farmanesh-Bocca's adaptation of Roman Philosopher and Playwright Seneca the Younger's tragedy HERCULES FURENS (The Madness of Hercules) opening Thursday, June 6 and closing Sunday, June 23, 2013 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse located at 1130 Lincoln Blvd. in Santa Monica.
NMA is a collective of performers, dancers, actors, designers and theatre artists who make dance/movement inspired theatre pieces using a mash-up of theatre traditions and modern technology, cultivating new storytelling forms from ancient techniques to present thrilling staging of both modern and classic texts using multi-track scoring, physical prowess, unconventional dance and movement.NMA was originally commissioned in 2011 by The Getty Villa to adapt and stage this rarely done Roman Tragedy in a workshop performance. The current production is the fully completed World Premiere of the play which is considered one of the first plays written that addresses the notion of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of soldiers in battle, but it was never produced and only read in Seneca's lifetime.
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