KC Stage Live: Gorilla Theatre’s ‘Seven Against Thebes’
Gorilla Theatre’s annual Greek show is more than theatre: it’s an event. Come join us for this Saturday’s early morning performance (7:30 am, on the south steps of the Nelson) for our next round of KC Stage Live!
Look for me in the KC Stage t-shirt, and if you get there early enough, I’ll even have a couple dozen Krispy Kremes and KC Stage swag with me! Then, stick around after to discuss the show. Tickets are free to this production.
First staged in 467 BC, Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is the next oldest surviving tragedy and won Aeschylus a first prize at its initial performance. When Oedipus, King of Thebes, realized he had married his own mother and had four children with her, he blinded himself and cursed his sons to divide their inheritance (the kingdom) by the sword. More information about the play can be found here.
For more information about this production, call Gorilla Theatre Productions at 816-510-3372.
KC Stage Live! is a ‘play-watching’ club in the vein of book clubs, where we will pick a show every few months to have people attend and then discuss afterwards (either in the theatre with possibly someone from the production crew, or at a nearby bar/restaurant). For more information about KC Stage Live!, e-mail KC Stage.
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when is the next production for 2012?
Of the Gorilla Theatre Greek theatre? Their website (http://www.gorillatheatre.org/) still has 2010 info, but says to check them out on Facebook – but no link. They just sent out auditions on the KC Stage announcement list (http://lists.kcstage.com/pipermail/kcstage-announce/2012-June/002710.html) and have the show information on KC Stage: June 30th and July 1st, 2012. We won’t be doing a “KC Stage Live” with it, though, as that program has been put on the back burner for now (not a lot of participants).