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DRAMA DESK NOMINATED:

Outstanding Director of a Play: Gisela Cardenas

   

 

         
   
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from Nytheatre.com...
"Not to be missed...
dazzling...tantalizing"
"Cardenas puts her actors through a solid physical workout and the effect is visually stunning."
"It’s a great production and/or a tasty dish."

from Backstage...
"Cardenas eschews trends with her invogorating staging..."
"...pungently visceral..."
"Linda Park provides a beautifully realized Clytemnestra

from OffOffOnline.com...
"Agamemnon is a feast for the eyes, ears, and even the nose as sight, sound, and smell join together in director Gisela Cardenas's bold new adaptation of Aeschylus's enduring tragedy"
"highlighted by strong performances and tight direction...masterfully executed and a triumph of craft...a unique theatrical event"

from CultureClash...
"{AGAMEMNON} is also notable for the strange, hallucinatory beauty of its staging"
"This production takes big chances."
"...a new and worthwhile play that disrupts the familiar text, and our assumptions, in order to bring us closer to the tragedy."

         
   
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AGAMEMNON

Adapted and Directed by:  Gisela Cardenas
Produced by: Joshua Randall
Light Designer:  Lucrecia Briceno
Sound Designer:  Elizabeth Coleman
Set Designer:  Jian Jung
Costume Designer:  Oana Botez-Ban
Puppet Design:  Andrea Gastelum
Dramaturge:  Kelina Gotman & Francisco Barrenechea

Stage Manager:  Paul Kowalewski
House Manager:  Allison Glenzer
Set Design Assistant:  Eunhae Kung
Technical Operators:  Raky Sastri, Joshua Higgason, Dave Polato

Linda Park as Clytemnestra
Jonathan Co Green as Agamemnon
David Arkema as Archestratos
Seth Powers as Aegistus, Messenger
Catherine Friesen as Electra, Cassandra, Iphigenia
Chorus: Raniah Al-Sayed, Irene Antoniazzi, Sebastian Calderon-Bentin, Vivan Chiu, Trevor Dallier, Gus Danowski, Brandon deSpain, Amelia Henderson, and Rebecca Lingafelter
Lucy Alibar, Sara Buffamanti, Andrea Gastelum as Furies

 

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