The Love of the Nightingale
The Love of the Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Luke Dennis
Produced by Michelle M. Aguillon
The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker is a contemporary reworking of the ancient Greek myth of Philomele, a vibrant, inquisitive Athenian princess whose questions are answered by silence and who is soon violently silenced herself, by her brother-in-law, the King of Thrace. Her chilling revenge, five years later during an evening of Dionysian revelry, is simply astonishing. A story of the power of words and the price of silence, The Love of the Nightingale is written in exultant modern prose that has the resonance of myth by a playwright who is as interesting and surprising as her name.
May 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, & 29, 2004, at 8 pm
May 23 at 2 pm
Abbott Theatre, 9 Spring Street, Waltham, MA
Tickets $15.00 — Seniors $13.00
The Cast
Dorothy Ahle: Echo, Niobe, Nurse
Sujoy De: Soldier, male chorus, Captain, Theseus
Sally Dennis: Philomele
Katheryn Holland: June, Queen of Athens, Bacchae
Mark Lessne: Soldier, sailor, male chorus
Wayne Vargas: King Pandion, soldier, sailor, male chorus
Brian Polak: Tereus
Donna Spurlock: Hero, Euripidean chorus, Bacchae
Renee Tyzbir: Iris, Phaedra, Bacchae
Julia Van Daam: Procne
Nora Williams: Helen, Aphrodite, Bacchae
Christopher Wren: Soldier, sailor, male chorus, Hippolytus
The Crew
Jeremy Medicus: Light Design
Julia Van Daam: Set Design
Katie Pearson: Costumes
Daemeon Pratt: Photography
Set Construction:
Michael Tonner
Michelle Aguillon
Luke Dennis
Sally Dennis
Matthew Silverstein
Rocco Sperazzo
Reviews: MetroWest Daily News, Theater Mirror, Norm Gross (PMP Network)