| By Aristophanes Directed by Juliet Robinson Choreography by Pat Tobin Season: 17 - 29 November 1982 The Poet and the Women is one of eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was first produced in 411 BCE, probably at the City Dionysia. It is now considered one of Aristophanes' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. The play is also notable for Aristophanes' free adaptation of key structural elements of Old Comedy and for the absence of the anti-populist and anti-war comments that pepper his earlier work. Cast: Euripides - Keith Cooke Mnesilochus - David Bridges Servant - David Smith Agathon - Paul Wrattan Priestesses - Pat Tobin, Sue Le Cren Micca - Trish Purcell Kale - Annmarie Roach Critylla - Teresa Macintyre Sostrate - Chrstine Greenfield Lysilla - Miriam O'Connor Penelope - Penny Rice Manya - Kerry Martin Zenylla - Megs Farrell Cleisthenes - Lloyd Edwards Magistrate - Grant McCrostie Scythian - Paul Wrattan Echo - Carole Headley Solo Dances - Penny Rice, Megs Farrell |   |
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