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...fame, Euripides is hard to pull off nowadays. Productions of Greek tragedies are almost always modernized to make them adhere to present-day aesthetics since audiences are not used to stylized choruses and lengthy speeches. The Athena Theater Company’s production of The Trojan Women, directed by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, was modernized, but perhaps not sufficiently so. Aside from occasional stirring moments, the play has the feel of a string of declamatory speeches...
...bright spots that help to color the play. The production used an amalgam of time periods for its costuming, designed by Khalda A. Ibrahim ’04 and Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06. Particularly effective was the portrayal of the gods as modern businessmen, with Athena (Cydney McQuillan-Grace ’06) carrying a briefcase and Poseidon (David V. Kimel ’05) recording the destruction of the Greeks on the “to-do” list of his personal digital assistant...
...demographics of the cast and partly from the varying levels of theater experience represented within it. At the end of my freshman year, I joined two amazing women and fellow VM cast members, Julia Reischel ’04 and Heather Thomason ’04, in founding the Athena Theater Company. We wanted to bring inexperienced actresses to the stage with experienced actresses, and to recreate the sense of community that had been so important in our VM experience. Since co-founding Athena, I’ve served on its executive board, produced several plays, acted in several plays...
There’s been a lot of talk recently contrasting Athena to Harvard Radcliffe Drama Company (HRDC), representing them as competing organizations. I think these critical comparisons miss the point of Athena, and the point of HRDC. Since we aim to approach theater as a way to explore new issues and to try things we haven’t tried before, we fill a completely different niche in the arts community here and draw from an entirely different pool of actors and technicians. Harvard has an amazing theater program and opportunities in the arts, and, with Athena, we?...
...every Athena production, on the night of the last dress rehearsal, I write a really dumb poem about the production and send it to the cast/crew lists in order to psych people up for the show. Then, while the cast is warming up at every performance, I give “symbolic gifts”—usually really cheap stuff I buy at CVS that has to do with the show in some way. I guess this has very little to do with the “creative process,” but it gets people excited about...