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CAST
Helen..........................................................................NIKE IMORU
Teukros/Messenger/Dioskouroi...........................DAN CLEGG
Chorus/Chorus Leader/Theonoe...............BRENDA MEANEY
Menelaos/Dioskouroi..........................................BRIAN RIVERA
Old Woman/Theoklymenos............................HENRY CLARKE
Endlessly surprising and curiously moving, this late Euripidean romance features Helen of Troy, who has been spirited away to Egypt in a cloud while a phantom of herself was taken to Troy by adulterous Paris. Now, years after the debacle of the Trojan War, Helen's shipwrecked husband King Menelaos rediscovers his wife on the banks of the Nile, and together this middle-aged couple plot their miraculous return home.
This program is supported by Elizabeth Moyer, PhD, and Michael Powanda, PhD; Bernard and Jane von Bothmer, in honor of the late Bernard V. Bothmer; Sheila Wishek; and Fred Levin, The Shenson Foundation.
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PROGRAM
December 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)
Rehearsed Reading of HELEN by Euripides
In person (Gunn Theater, Legion of Honor, 100 - 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121) and livestream (https://youtu.be/UPbSHtgyC6E )
Presented by Directed and presented by Carey Perloff Artistic Director Emerita, American Conservatory Theater
Admission:
This program is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid event. IN PERSON: Seating is limited and unassigned. The Gunn Theater will open its doors at 1:30 pm. LIVE STREAM: online (https://youtu.be/UPbSHtgyC6E ).
Covid-19 guidance: https://deyoung.famsf.org/covid-updates
