ORESTEIA (In development)
Preston Martin as Electra at Judson Church
by Nate Weida & Micah Bucey
This musical adaptation draws from Aeschylus’s Oresteia and the wealth of myths, adaptations, and translations that swirl around this tale of a family mired in violence. Over 2,000 years old and still horrifyingly relevant, our story focuses in turn on the perspectives of a firebrand Electra, a haunted Clytemnestra, and a silenced Cassandra. The piece veers from the drag personas of our femme fatales ruling over a cabaret romp, to an atonal chorus of Furies who appear in fever dreams, to a defiant deconstruction of performance that demands we consider how exactly to take action against injustice.
Foreground: Liz Leimkuhler as Iphigenia / Background: Ben Langhorst as Agamemnon & Vanessa Felix as Fury
Nate Weida, McLean Peterson, Bailey Edwards, Chanel Andrews, Melissa Mahoney, Kristen Krak, Sophie, and Sophie Sagen-Gutherz (photo by Mia Hull)
At the Barn at Bennett’s Bridge: Lauren Annunziata, Nate Weida, Ronald Peet, Bailey Edwards, Mia Hull
