{"id":3399,"date":"2012-06-25T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.web.unc.edu\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:29:59","slug":"an-iliad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Iliad\u2019 joins PlayMakers\u2019 season lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obie Award-winner \u201cAn Iliad\u201d will open PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s 2012-2013 season Sept 5-9.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present \u201cAn Iliad\u201d as part of its thought-provoking PRC2<\/sup> second stage series, in which each performance is followed by artist-audience discussion. The one-man play completes the 2012-13 lineup, joining another Obie Award-winner, Rinde Eckert\u2019s \u201cAnd God Created Great Whales (Jan. 9-13, 2013) and the world premiere of \u201cSpring Training\u201d by spoken word ensemble Universes (April 24-28, 2013).<\/p>\n

Playwrights Lisa Peterson and Tony Award-winner Denis O\u2019Hare (also known for his role in HBO\u2019s \u201cTrue Blood\u201d) were honored with a special citation from the 2012 Obie Awards for bringing a modern sensibility to Homer\u2019s epic tale of mighty warriors, gods and goddesses, and the face that launched a thousand ships, without losing the grit, glory, bloodlust and poetry that have held audiences enthralled through the ages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis contemporary take on \u2018The Iliad\u2019 is the perfect complement to last season\u2019s PRC2<\/sup> finale \u2018Penelope,\u2019 which was a contemporary look at \u2018The Oydessy,\u2019\u201d said Joseph Haj, PlayMakers producing artistic director.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Sun-Times called the play \u201cexplosive, altogether breathtaking\u2026brilliantly meshes past and present calamity, with touches of the most caustic dark humor suddenly shifting into unimaginable pathos.\u201d The New York Times said \u201cAn Iliad\u201d is \u201cspellbinding\u2026smartly conceived and impressively executed\u2026an age-old story that resonates with tragic meaning today.\u201d<\/p>\n

PlayMakers\u2019 production will feature longtime acting company member and audience favorite Ray Dooley in a solo performance as the storyteller.<\/p>\n

Jesse Berger, founding artistic director of New York\u2019s Red Bull Theater, will direct. Under his leadership, Red Bull produces In-The-Raw play development workshops and the Obie Award-winning Revelation Reading Series. Berger also directs extensively at other New York theaters and across the country, working with actors Patrick Stewart, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Learned and many others.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Iliad\u201d will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly and 2 p.m. on Sept 9. Tickets are currently available as part of the theater\u2019s 2012-2013 season packages. Single tickets to all shows go on sale in August. For more information, call the PlayMakers box office at (919) 962-7529 or visit www.playmakersrep.org<\/a>. PRC\u00b2 shows are presented in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers\u2019 Mainstage Season opens Sept. 22 with 2010 Tony Award-winner \u201cRed.\u201d<\/p>\n

PlayMakers is based in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences. The Drama League of New York has named PlayMakers one of the best regional theaters in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obie Award-winner \u201cAn Iliad\u201d will open PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s 2012-2013 season Sept 5-9. PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present \u201cAn Iliad\u201d as part of its thought-provoking PRC2 second stage series, in which each performance is followed by artist-audience discussion. The one-man play completes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45345,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/45345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}