External Forces (2022)

External Forces: Greek Tragedy Travels to the 21st Century. A collection of six short plays: Isabella Estrada (by Tony Robinson, based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, set in 1870 Old West, America); Medea (by Barbara White Morgan, based on Euripides' Medea, set in 2022 California); Juked (by Mildred Lewis, based on Sophocles' Electra, set in 1940 Mississippi Delta); Queen of Sorrows (by Madeline Daly Puccioni, based on Euripides' Hecuba, set in 1864, Civil War plantation in Georgia); Real Housewife of Trachis (by Dara Harper, based on Sophocles' Women of Trachis, set in Beverly Hills' mansion in summer 2021); The Fire Burns Deepest at Night (by Raymond Mitchell, based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, set in 1967 Detroit riots), with a Scene Transition Chorus written and directed by RJ Wayne. Towne Street Theatre production with A Noise Within.