An Ancient, Gothic Greek

Tale of Love Gone Gaga!

He has finally returned after 20 years. She is on Fire!

The World Premiere of THE DRAGON QUEEN OF ARGOS is the perfect revenge cocktail and aphrodisiac for your soul. This 70 minute elixir of passion and raging winter beauty responds to Aeschylus’ famous ancient tragedy AGAMEMNON, putting Clytemnestra (the wife) at the core of the action. It explores the ferocious heart of love, war, sacrifice and recrimination that is the centre of The Curators POST DRAMATIC TROY DISORDER Cycle.

After 20 years waiting, Clytemnestra, now more Dragon than Woman, can finally enact her burning vengeance. The ghost of her daughter, Iphigenia, spurs her on to action.  She is now the Dragon Queen of Regret, The Dragon Queen of Reckoning, The Dragon Queen of Revenge, The Dragon Queen of Retaliation and The Dragon Queen of Redemption.

This age-old fable of revenge rebalances the tragic and cursed in The House of Atreus. Howling and raging, like the ferocious wind on a winter night, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Iphigenia and Cassandra are all reborn in the flames.

Written & Directed by Michael Beh. Based on Agamemnon by Aeschylus and Charles Mee’s Remaking Project. With excerpts from The Wasteland by TS Eliot.

Dedicated to Phil Pratt.

From 15 August to 6th September, for 7 Performances Only on Friday & Saturday nights at 7.30pm.

(including one Saturday relaxed matinee at 3.00 pm). The Curators’ perform at our pop-up theatre venue, ‘The BARNEY’, 28 St Barnabas Place, in the heart of Red Hill.

PERFORMANCES:

Performance 1: Friday 15 August, 7.30 pm

(OPENING NIGHT)

Performance 2: Saturday 16 August, 3.00 pm - Cancelled

Performance 3: Saturday 16 August, 7.30 pm

Performance 4: Friday 29 August, 7.30 pm

Performance 5: Saturday 30 August, 7.30 pm

Performance 6: Friday 5th September, 7.30 pm

Performance 7: Saturday 6th September, 7.30 pm

Ticket Prices: $39.00 Adult, $32 Concession/Seniors/MEAA/Students.

Length: 70 min | Seating: Unreserved 

Starting time:  7.30pm Evening (Friday & Saturday only), 3.00 pm Matinee (only on Sat)

RATING: For Mature Audiences. There is the use of very strongly descriptive and at times, sexualised language and descriptions of death. Stylised images of killing, death and dying occur.

ACCESS: Due to the heritage nature of the surrounding precinct, and its hilly topography there is limited disability access. There is ramp access to the actual performance space.

STYLES: Post Dramatic, Tragedy, Greek Theatre, Image Theatre, Song, Dance.  This play is not naturalistic.

CAST:

CLYTEMNESTRA: Rainee Skinner

AGAMEMNON: Brent Dunner

CASSANDRA: Amelia White 

IPHIGENIA: Rebecca Munasinghe

ANGEL (Eros): Lachlan Mills

CREATIVES:

Director/Designer: Michael Beh

Dramaturg: Maureen Todhunter

Stage Manager: Jordana Widt

Production Manager: Brent Dunner

Lighting Designer: Michael Beh

Website & Tkt Set Up: Gregg Goriss

Assistant to Director: Lachlan Mills

PLUS: A SPECIAL EVENT: THE FINAL VEIL

A 25min Prologue THE FINAL VEIL is performed before shows on FRIDAY night 15th at 7.30pm as well as on Saturday 16th at 3.00pm and 7:30 pm, by The Sublime Ensemble. It is a reaction to the Salome story.

The Sublime Ensemble are a group of emerging artists, mainly over 60 years in age, who have been learning and training together through The ARC Acting Program with Michael Beh, to explore “isness” in acting and making heightened drama with a difference.

Featuring Kate Godfrey, Michael Holliday, Colleen Saunders, Maureen Todhunter and Debbie Tippet.

More on this exciting project to come.