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The Poet and the Women

17/11/1982

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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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