Villa Play-Reading Series
The Getty Villa
Enjoy "script-in-hand" renditions of lesser-known Greek and Roman plays in translation, offered by some of our favorite theater ensembles. Tickets are free.
All performances take place in the Auditorium at the Getty Villa. Parking is $10 after 5:00 p.m.
All performances take place in the Auditorium at the Getty Villa. Parking is $10 after 5:00 p.m.
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Most recently in the series
SITI Company reads The Trojan Women
November 5–6, 2010 One of America's leading experimental theater ensembles presented its current work-in-progress, a new version of Euripides' timeless meditation on suffering and survival. In the ruins of their city, the royal women of Troy, awaiting enslavement and exile, must choose between death and life. Directed by Anne Bogart; Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke. For adult and teen audiences.
November 5–6, 2010 One of America's leading experimental theater ensembles presented its current work-in-progress, a new version of Euripides' timeless meditation on suffering and survival. In the ruins of their city, the royal women of Troy, awaiting enslavement and exile, must choose between death and life. Directed by Anne Bogart; Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke. For adult and teen audiences.
Aristophanes' The Frogs
Directed by Matt Walker, adapted by David Greenspan,
presented by Troubadour Theater Company
March 19–20, 2010
The playwright Aristophanes lived to see Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—his three older contemporaries—dead and buried. In this typically irreverent satire, Dionysus, the god of theater, depressed by the state of the Athenian stage, resolves to restore literary excellence to the seasonal dramatic festivals. Descending to Hades with his slave Xanthius, Dionysus vows to return to Earth with the greatest dead playwright of them all.
But just who is the greatest playwright? And how will the god of wine convince the powerful lord of the Underworld to release the famous deceased author? Hilarity ensues, as a large chorus of singing frogs becomes involved…
Directed by Matt Walker, adapted by David Greenspan,
presented by Troubadour Theater Company
March 19–20, 2010
The playwright Aristophanes lived to see Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—his three older contemporaries—dead and buried. In this typically irreverent satire, Dionysus, the god of theater, depressed by the state of the Athenian stage, resolves to restore literary excellence to the seasonal dramatic festivals. Descending to Hades with his slave Xanthius, Dionysus vows to return to Earth with the greatest dead playwright of them all.
But just who is the greatest playwright? And how will the god of wine convince the powerful lord of the Underworld to release the famous deceased author? Hilarity ensues, as a large chorus of singing frogs becomes involved…
Euripides' Helen
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, translated by J. Michael Walton,
presented by Playwrights' Arena
March 5–6, 2010
Euripides' rarely performed comic play is based on a dazzling and outrageous conceit: that Spartan Helen has passed the entire Trojan War living chastely in Egypt, hidden and protected by the gods, and that only a counterfeit phantom of herself was abducted to Troy, thus provoking ten years of calamity for both sides.
Seven years after the war's end, Helen remains stranded in Egypt, the most hated women in the world, but oblivious to her infamy and ignorant of the war's outcome and the fate of her husband, Menelaus. The action of the play unfolds on the day that word reaches Helen of what has transpired in Troy, and that the shipwrecked Menelaus is washed up in rags on the Egyptian shore.
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, translated by J. Michael Walton,
presented by Playwrights' Arena
March 5–6, 2010
Euripides' rarely performed comic play is based on a dazzling and outrageous conceit: that Spartan Helen has passed the entire Trojan War living chastely in Egypt, hidden and protected by the gods, and that only a counterfeit phantom of herself was abducted to Troy, thus provoking ten years of calamity for both sides.
Seven years after the war's end, Helen remains stranded in Egypt, the most hated women in the world, but oblivious to her infamy and ignorant of the war's outcome and the fate of her husband, Menelaus. The action of the play unfolds on the day that word reaches Helen of what has transpired in Troy, and that the shipwrecked Menelaus is washed up in rags on the Egyptian shore.
How to Get Here
The Getty Villa is located at 17985 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, approximately 25 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. See Hours, Directions, Parking for directions and parking information.
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