Orestes
One cannot lightly dismiss the command of destiny
Minneapolis Theatre Garage
711 West Franklin Avenue
Minneapolis
September 7 - September 23, 2007
In nimbus' Agamemnon, the king returned from war only to find his death at the hands of his scheming wife. Now, the son will return to seek his vengeance. In this fusion of the 2nd half of Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers and the entirety of The Eumenides, the prodigal Orestes returns to avenge the killing of his father, Agamemnon, and then flees, only to be pursued by the Furies. With help from Apollo, he seeks out Athena and is thrown to the mercy of her court and a jury of his peers.
Directed by nimbus co-Artistic Director Liz Neerland, Orestes is the second of a two-part original adaptation of the Oresteia trilogy. These classic tragedies have been re-imagined as a daring new work that seeks to trace the reverberations of brutality and introduce the (still) novel idea that mercy should take precedence over cruelty.
Reviews of Orestes:
- HowWasTheShow.com: Orestes, a nimbus theater production at Minneapolis Theater Garage on 9/7/07, by David de Young
- City Pages: Orestes, by Quinton Skinner
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Dramatis Personae
| Director: | Liz Neerland |
| Assistant Director: | Dani Givens |
| Stage Manager: | Andrea Krist |
| Set Design: | Josh Cragun |
| Light Design: | Kate Hanson |
| Sound Design: | Jacob Rosene |
| Costume Design: | Andrea Gross |
| Properties: | Ursula Bowden |
| Scenic Artist: | James Flemming |
| Graphic Design: | Aleks Stancevic |
| Chorus: | Heather Meyer |
| Electra: | Bethany Ford |
| Orestes: | Brian Hesser |
| Katherine Kupiecki | |
| Nurse/Pythia: | Colleen Barrett |
| Furies: | Charla Bailey, Emma Gochberg, Ariel Pinkerton |
| Apollo: | Andrew Chambers |
| Athena: | Jessica Wright |
| Set Crew: | Mike Cochran, Nick Decker, Declan Doperalski, Brian Hesser, Jill Hoeft, Tanya Labao, Alex Meyer, Jim Nogler |