We Only Live Once
MStudio Movement Theatre, Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania, 2015
This adaptation of Eurpides’ Alcestis is almost entirely my own text, with a few bits of the original sprinkled in. With these ruins poking through, I want to remind the audience of the play's roots, but I want to jar them, too. Classical texts seem honest to me only when uneven. I distrust the smooth translation of a very old text because these plays have been rewritten, lost, had coffee spilled on them, so many times. Greek plays bear the most coffee stains of all.
Text by Tom Dugdale after Euripides’ Alcestis
Lights, Sound, & Music: Tom Dugdale
Sets & Costumes: Eszter Gyorgy
Dramaturgy: Reka Szabo
