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OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
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The Aquila Theatre Company's
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
With Bill Pullman joining Aquila
to read the role of Oedipus.
The Aquila Theatre Company launches their 2005 New York Season by presenting
a public reading of Artistic Director Peter Meineck's translation of
Sophocles' Tragedy Oedipus at Colonus.
Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 8:00 PM
At the Baruch Performing Arts Center
(25th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues)
For Tickets or more information please call 212-998-8017
or e-mail aquilausa6@aol.com
This is the first of several Aquila Explorations a series of readings and
workshops co-sponsored by NYU's Center for Ancient Studies. Tickets are $30.00
each and all proceeds will go to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society. There will be a reception and discussion with Mr. Pullman and the Aquila
cast following the reading.
Featuring Aquila's Associate Artists along with Bill Pullman (who recently
starred on Broadway in The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? and has appeared in over 50
feature films including The Accidental Tourist, A League of Their Own, Sleepless
in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping, Independence Day, Lost Highway, Igby
Goes Down, and currently The Grudge) reading the role of Oedipus.
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS relates to the last days of the famous Theban leader. He
has been forced out of his home by his sons after the revelation that he has
cursed Thebes by murdering his father and marrying his mother. He now
wanders as an outcast, begging for scraps of food and seeking shelter, accompanied
by his loyal daughter, Antigone. Arriving in Colonus on the outskirts of
Athens, Oedipus invades a sacred shrine and refuses to move, declaring it his
place of destiny. The arrival of this famous pariah has enormous consequences
for Athens, Thebes and the family of Oedipus.
For more information please e-mail aquilausa6@aol.com
or visit www.aquilatheatre.com