The Iliad: Menin (Rage)
THEM! Drama Series
The Iliad: Menin (Rage)
Written by Homer with translation by Stephen Mitchell
Annie Loui, Director and Choreographer
October 13 – 16, 2016
Winifred Smith Hall
This dramatic movement piece is constructed in the style of CounterBalance Theatre, in which actors play multiple characters, as well as animals and architecture. Physical depictions of gods, monsters and nature personified are embodied by the ensemble of performers who play multiple speaking parts and all of the movement roles. Taking place ten years into the Trojan War, this is a story about reputation and honor, and how they create the ultimate THEM and US: a world in which friends and allies become enemies, and even the immortals come down to earth to take sides.
Performances:
Evenings: Oct. 13, 14, 15^ @ 8 p.m.
Matinees: Oct. 15^, 16* @ 2 p.m.
*Ticketholders: Please join us for a post-performance TalkBack with the creative team and cast.
^Ticketholders: Please us for an "after-panel" sponsored by Illuminations.
Illuminations “After-Panels”
Here’s your chance for a Q & A session with the cast and crew!
Saturday, October 15
Matinee (2:00 pm, Winifred Smith Hall)
Oren Izenberg and Annie Loui; plus the cast and artistic team
Saturday, October 15
Evening (8:00 pm, Winifred Smith Hall)
Zina Giannopoulou (Greek context) and Andrew Zizzos (epic responses); plus Annie Louie, cast, and artistic team
Tickets:
General $15
Seniors, Groups 10+, UCI Faculty & Staff $14
UCI Students & Children under 17 $11
THEM!
Daniel Gary Busby, Artistic Director
UCI Drama’s 2016 – 17 season, THEM!, explores our tendency – both as individuals and as societal groups – to separate and cast blame on “The Other.” Through a series of plays and musicals that investigate religious persecution and genocide, the castigation of physical difference, interpersonal alienation, and our xenophobic reaction to other cultures culminating in war, we examine the ways in which we so often look to identify a scapegoat rather than find mutual understanding and acceptance. Present throughout the plays of the season we hear the voices of “them.”