About
The Greeks Season
by East 15 Acting School
Friday 21st to Thursday 27th June 2024
Wound, Black Dream and Innocence are three performances at the Corbett Theatre in Loughton, that make up the 'Greeks Season'.
More information and box office for tickets HERE
Ticket prices: Adults: £12, Concessions (disabled person, 60+ and students*): £8
Wound is based on the myth of Philoctetes. "Abandoned by his friends because of his stinking wound, Philoctetes stands for all of us who have been abandoned for our unbearable stench. Whatever our stench was - perhaps a catastrophic grief causing the whiff of death to cling ever about us, or an untold secret that kept us drenched in the odour of shame, we have endured isolation born of others' disgust". Performances: Friday 21st 7pm, Tuesday 25th 2pm and Thursday 27th 7pm.
Black Dream. "It is finished, Troy is gone. Old life, old hearth and home, destroyed and now Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen and a chorus of fallen women await their fate. No grief can encompass what they feel, no funeral song. They sing the death song of a city, a culture, a whole population. Troy stands for all of us, a civilisation going down in blood and fire". Performances: Saturday 22nd 7pm, Tuesday 25th 7pm and Wednesday 26th 2pm.
Innocence is adapted from Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers for a contemporary audience. "Miami. Present day. Haunted by the mysterious death of Iphigenia; daughter, sister, soldier, a family tries to rebuild… and find what ‘normal’ feels like? The closer they get to peace, the louder the voices become". Performances: Monday 24th 7pm, Wednesday 26th 7pm and Thursday 27th 2pm.
*Please note these performances have content warnings and are suitable for audiences aged 16+
The Corbett Theatre is at the East 15 campus, Rectory Lane, Loughton IG10 3RY
More about East 15 Acting School, part of the University of Essex and highest ranked drama school in London and the South East, HERE
