Now Accepting Applications for the Ancient Drama Festival 2013!

We are now accepting applications for the
ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL 2013!
February 22 - March 10
If you would like to apply to next year's festival:

There is a $150 non-refundable application fee.

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After mounting two successful off-Broadway runs of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (2010) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris (2011), Leonidas Loizides’s acting troupe will return in the Fall of 2012 to present Euripides’s Helen. Produced and directed by the award-wining Leonidas Loizidis, Helen features an outstanding performance by acclaimed actress Eftychia Loizidi and a new adaptation of the play into modern English poetry by Louis Markos, English and Honors Professor and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University.

''Poor Greeks and Trojans slain for me.
I am a creature made of mist and air.
All for a trick of Hera's you have died. ''

Helen was written at 412 B.C. and was presented to the audience for
the first time at the same period just after the ending of the
Sicilian expedition with the defeat of the Athenian ship and the
disappointment of the Athenians. This exact outcry of the Athenian
population is expressed by Aggelos in Helen when he learns that so
many years they fought uselessly around an idol. Euripides condemns
war and he considers that it only brings destructions. The war is a
madness, a fallacy that has pitiful results. His faith for peace and
his repulsion for war lead him to write this tragedy that is a cry of
the heart of a pacifist.