Burning Coal and CAM Raleigh Present THE GREEKS 

Burning Coal Theatre Company and Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh will collaborate on a production of The Greeks, adapted by Ian Finley from the plays of Sophocles (Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) June 9 - 25, 2017 at CAM Raleigh, 409 West Martin Street, Warehouse District, Raleigh. The play will be performed in the galleries and run June 9 - 10, 16-17 and 23-24 at 7 pm and June 18 & 25 at 2 pm. The three one-hour plays may be viewed all on the same date (Tickets $25) or each play on a different date (tickets to each $10). Student Rush tickets at curtain time, if available, are $5 for the three play viewing. There is no performance on Sunday, June 11th. Attendees who wish to have dinner with the cast during the performance of Oedipus at Colonus can purchase a boxed dinner for an additional $10. Beer and wine available. If you wish to book tickets for a full viewing of The Greeks please visit www.burningcoal.org or call us at 919.834.4001. If you wish to see one of the three plays at a time, please call Burning Coal to schedule. Each play is one hour long with two10 minute intermissions. Please visit www.burningcoal.org for information about ASL and audio described performances.

ABOUT THE GREEKS
Sophocles wrote Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone in the 5th century BC (about 2500 years ago). The plays have been produced regularly since then. They were written as part of the Festival of Dionysus which itself was a religious ceremony that morphed over the years into something like what we think of as theatre today, when Thespis stepped from the Chorus and "performed" a role for the first time (that we know of) in human history. Athens was then a 'City-State' with the most powerful army and navy in the world and it dominated the known world. Sophocles plays are extraordinary in that they challenged the accepted religious dogma and the supremacy of the State. In short, they were radical to the max!

ABOUT IAN FINLEY

Originally from the mining town of Price, Utah, Ian Finley received his undergraduate degree in theatre from the University of Utah and his MFA from NYU (in playwriting). From graduate school, he moved to Raleigh and spent nine years developing Burning Coal Theatre Company's education program, WillPower. His plays have been produced in several states and have been published. For Burning Coal he has written the book to Jude the Obscure, Parts 1 & 2 and 1960.

ABOUT THE CAST AND TEAM
Alex Tobey (Director) hails from Raleigh, North Carolina, where he attended Enloe High School and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before getting his BFA from the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Past directing credits include Good Girl Gone Bad (HERE Arts Center), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), Watch Me Burn (The Wild Project), Expedition (Fourth Street Theatre), MilkMilkLemonade (Carnegie Mellon), CO-OPERA (Pittsburgh Opera), It's a Wonderful Life (Bricolage Production Company), and No Exit (bubble:PGH). He served as assistant director on Frontieres sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Tick, Tick...Boom! (Keen Company) and Houseworld (San Damiano Mission, Ars Nova ANT Fest, Elements Music Festival). www.alextobey.com

The cast of The Greeks will include John Allore (Shining City, Blue Sky), Ellie Barone (Written on the Heart), Chloe Oliver, Ben Apple (Rum & Vodka) and Freyja Sindemark.

ABOUT BURNING COAL

Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's intimate, professional theatres. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.

ABOUT CAM RALEIGH

CAM Raleigh provides the platform for enriching our community and empowering creativity through contemporary art and design. CAM's ever-changing educational and cultural experiences ignite ideas and connect people to what is now and what is next.

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