The Coffeyville Community College Theatre Department opens its 2011-2012 Theatre Season with the Greek trilogy, "The Orestia" by Aeschylus.  The play is adapted by award winning playwright Tom Wright who is the Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. "The Orestia" will be presented at CCC on September 29-30 and October 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Spencer/Rounds Theatre. The production is free to the public.

The trilogy consists of three short Greek plays.  In the first play Agamemnon, a Greek King sacrifices his daughter, Iphigenia, so his ships can go sail to Troy to save the beautiful Helen of Troy that leads to the Greek and Trojan War. The play starts ten years later as the war has ended and Agamemnon must answer for the death of his daughter by his wife, Clytemnestra, who brutally kills him.  In "Libation Bearers", the second play, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, comes home to avenge his mother’s death with his sister, Electra, by killing her.  In the third play, "The Furies", Apollo grants Orestes forgiveness for the murder of his mother and her lover Aegisthus and saves him from the torture from the black creatures from Hades, the Furies.

The cast consists of Jasmine Kyle as Clytemnestra, Dylan Hart as Agamemnon, Drew Bosack as Orestes, Holly Barks as Electra, Samantha Lambert as Iphigenia, Tim Burns as Aegisthus, Donald Houston as a messenger, and Melissa Delfft, Cheyenne Miller, Ashley Lundblade will play the three person Greek chorus.  The play is rated PG-13 for violence and adult themes. For more information about the production, please call Artistic Director Mark Frank at 620-251-7700, ext. 2145, or e-mail at [email protected].

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