PERFORMANCE: “Penelope”

“Penelope,” original monologue based on Homer’s Odyssey,written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin. 

 

Ellen McLaughlin is an award-winning playwright, who has written numerous works inspired by classic Greek texts and reflecting on ancient and modern warfare, including The Oresteia, The Persians, Ajax in Iraq, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, The Trojan Women, Oedipus, Helen, and Kissing the Floor.  She is also an actor, best known known for originating the role of the Angel in Angels in America by Tony Kushner, appearing in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its original Broadway run.  Penelope is a modern retelling of the Odyssey, in which a woman takes in her ex-husband, who returns to her after twenty years as a profoundly traumatized veteran, and tends to him by reading him the Odyssey. 

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