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The Persians
March 28, 2015,
2:00 pm
Location
Speech Building - L. Howard Fox Theatre
SponsorDepartment of Theatre and DanceCost$15; no charge for undergraduates with valid MSU ID, courtesy of your Performing Arts FeePosted InDepartment of Theatre and Dance
By Aeschylus
Translated by Robert Auletta
Directed by Mercedes Murphy
The Persians, the earliest Greek play to survive as a complete work, recounts how the news of an unexpected and crushing defeat of the Greek army reached the Persian imperial court. According to The Guardian, “The play's tour de force [is a] vivid, fast-moving account of one of history's great battles…Dense and muscular in its imagery, with an exotic queen, a portentous dream, a distant location and a sinister supernatural event …A troubling, masterful play [that] can also become a drama for our time.”