LightBox presents Orestes by Charles Mee from 7 to 17 Jan 2004

Wed 10 Dec 2003 LightBox presents Orestes by Charles Mee from 7 to 17 Jan 2004 LightBox presents Orestes by Charles Mee from 7 to 17 Jan 2004 at Phil Bosakowski Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street, Second Floor - between 8th & 9th Avenues, New York, (Off Broadway). The play is directed by Ellen Beckerman , costumes by Amela Baksic, and lighting by Michael O'Connor The cast includes: Margot Ebling, Shawn Fagan and James Saidy Modern interpretation of the classic Greek tragedy. A chorus of murderous prisoners using John Wayne Gacy's testimony, Electra cast as a sex worker, pulled-quotes from Vogue magazine and television game shows in this tale of events surrounding The House of Atreus make this NOT your Classics Professor's Orestes. This is all designed for contemporary audiences to relate the bigness of Greek myth to our own less epic but equally violent lives.