The Flies
BY: Jean-Paul Sartre
DIRECTED BY: Michael Pieper
Opened October 2002
This production was Jeff Recommended! |
"Trap Door director Michael S. Pieper enlivens the long passages of prose with a variety of multi-sensory images."
-Mary Shen Barnidge, The Windy City Times
Opened October 2002
CAST: Tom Bateman, Shannon Farmer, Alison Connelly, Michale Bassett, Angela Bullard, Peter Esposito, Adair Cahoat, Judy Loyd, Dawn Swick, Mark Pracht, Andy Hagar, Garret Prejean
LIGHTING DESIGN: Richard Norwood
SOUND DESIGN: Bob Rokos
COSTUME DESIGN: Michael Pieper
SET DESIGN: Michael Pieper
The Flies...
a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story which calls for freedom from the hollow detachment that tempts the intellectual to live unto himself superiorly in a self created vacuum
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905. After being graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1929 with a doctorate in philosophy, he taught for a while at La Havre, Lyon and Paris. Taken Prisoner in 1940, he was released after nine months, and returned to Paris and teaching. His first play, The FLies, was produced in Paris during the German Occupation. His second play, No Exit, was the first to be performed in Paris after the liberation. In addition to plays, his works include important philisophical works and novels. In 1964 Sartre declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1980.
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